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Matt Rutherford uses a hand desalinator to make drinking water from seawater, which he pumps into plastic bottles. As Matt says on his blog, “The answer to reducing the amount of plastic trash in our ocean is not at sea, it’s on land. We must reduce the usage of one time use plastic items, increase recycling and promote the use of true biopolymers.” Photo by Nicole Trenhorn