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Best of the Bronx: Students study effects of litter on borough

A group of ninth-graders from New Visions Charter High School for Advanced Math & Science II are trying to clean up the South Bronx by studying the effects of litter. They say litter can impact everything

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Jun 12, 2014, 10:30 PM

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