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Ocean Cleanup Project Targets Great Pacific Garbage Patch

September 4, 2018

Via: Waste360

After five years in the making, The Ocean Cleanup is launching its beta cleanup system, a 600-meter-long floater that can collect up to 5 tons of ocean plastic a month.

The cleanup project will begin in the Pacific Ocean on September 8 and will target the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a swirling mass of plastic waste between California and Hawaii that has grown to at least 87,000 tons, according to researchers. The plastics are swept into the patch by the currents and eventually disintegrate into smaller pieces, at which point the particles are eaten by fish and, ultimately, humans.

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