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Charlotta Lomas, La Teste-de-Buch, FranceJune 3, 2014

Charlo is on a mission to protect France's coastal environment from an invasion of plastic filters. He's been removing as many as possible from the beaches and trying to find out where exactly they're coming from.

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Charlieric Bailly is showing the plastic filters he found on a Frnech beach. Copyright: Charlotta Lomas
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Saving France's beaches from a plastic invasion

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