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Environmental News For The Week Ending 05June 2019
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William Brangham:
Andy Yoder:
Right. They did.
Right next to Salvatore Ferragamo, you have got Special K cereal, or Veuve Clicquot right next to Hot Wheels. So, it s that juxtaposition, that slamming together of things from high culture, low culture, all those different things kind of bumping up against each other.
William Brangham:
But this is about more than just a chaotic collision of color.
Yoder hopes we can learn something new from the things we cast away, very much like the three-decade-old event that inspired this work. In 1990, the container ship the Hansa Carrier was traveling from Korea to North America when it hit rough water. The storm threw overboard several containers full of roughly 80,000 Nike shoes.