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Today, divers in santa monica are joining hundreds of thousands of volunteers around the world hitting the beach to fight against ocean trash. let's go right now to darsha phillips with knbc, joining us from the santa monica pier on a beautiful saturday in southern california. what are you seeing there, the efforts to make that region even more beautiful by cleaning it up, right? >> reporter: absolutely, alex. we are seeing 1,000 to 2,000 volunteers in santa monica helping clean up the beaches, parks, creeks and oceans here in this area, and we see a lot of folks picking up trash on the beache...

In the medium term, accelerating the use of technology to convert plastic wastes and improve the technology and most importantly cutting single-use plastics. here dr. kyle of the monterey bay aquarium. listen here. >> we think they're being recycled at 90% of the materials that go into the system are not recycled and end up in landfills or perhaps in the ocean. that's one place that we can start what is an easy fix. an easy fix is to stop using single-use plastics. we don't need these materials. >> the trump administration has previously refused to sign on to any binding international agreemen...