Residents contacted ABC Action News in 2023 about manatees swimming through trash in the Hillsborough River. Now, as they return to keep warm in cold waters, those concerns are resurfacing.
We all see plastic bags, water bottles and trash littering our roads and waterways. But, according to researchers, what we see barely scratches the surface of what's lurking in the deep.
Cities are turning to “trash skimmers” to rid their waterways of plastic waste. But environmentalists say the boats are more of a Band-Aid than a solution.
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