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Miles O’Brien:

But she has to send the sorted plastic to Europe, because there are no recycling facilities here that will accept it.

Back down east, Buzz Scott employs a hydraulic crusher to make it easier to recycle the lobster traps. To get them melted down, he must truck them across the border into Canada. About a month after our visit to Hart Island, Linda Welch led a cleanup effort. Volunteers gathered and crushed more than 200 traps.

A chartered barge is set to haul it all away. But the derelict fishing gear just keeps coming.

For the "PBS NewsHour," I'm Miles O'Brien along the Gulf of Maine.