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Canadian plastic from the 1960s washed up on the shores of Scotland

Plastic from Canada that dates from the 1960s recently washed up on the shores of a Scottish island. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to David Warner from Orkney, Scotland who made the discovery.

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Ayesha Rascoe is a White House correspondent for NPR. She is currently covering her third presidential administration. Rascoe's White House coverage has included a number of high profile foreign trips, including President Trump's 2019 summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, Vietnam, and President Obama's final NATO summit in Warsaw, Poland in 2016. As a part of the White House team, she's also a regular on the NPR Politics Podcast.

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