L.A.'s ultra-urban rivers wash tons of trash out to sea. There's a plan to change that before the Olympics

What happened

According to Los Angeles Times’s source item, L.A.’s ultra-urban rivers wash tons of trash out to sea. There’s a plan to change that before the Olympics, ‘Trash interceptors’ will be installed in the L.A. and San Gabriel rivers to stop tons of plastic from reaching the ocean before the 2028 Olympics.

Context

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Source

Primary source: L.A.’s ultra-urban rivers wash tons of trash out to sea. There’s a plan to change that before the Olympics via Los Angeles Times. VINI cites and links the source; it does not reproduce the publisher’s full article text without rights clearance.