Senator Merkley shows poster of DC river banks clogged with plastics at subcommittee hearing

Chemical Safety, Waste Management, Environmental Justice and Regulatory Oversight Subcommittee chairman Jeff Merkley says showing a photo while out jogging along the Anacostia River that it is just choked with with plastic, another while running on the Potomac after a high tide event and the entire running trail is covered while millions of pieces of little tiny pieces of plastic, that volunteers after a couple hours had cleared a two square foot section, trying to pick all these little tiny bits out.