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Joe Charbonnet / Engineered Sand

Click above to listen to part 3 of True Grit, featuring Joe Charbonnet, science and policy associate at the Green Science Policy Institute in Berkeley, California, discussing how engineered sand (which he holds in the photo above) can be used to filter stormwater to make it suitable for treatment rather than treated as pollution.

True Grit:
Part 1: Vince Beiser / World of Sand
Part 2: Pupa Gilbert / Sand Makers
Part 3: Joe Charbonnet / Engineered Sand
Part 4: Managing Sand in the Mississippi

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