Great Pacific garbage patch: giant plastic trap put to sea again
by Associated Press from Environment | The Guardian on (#4HR59)
Floating boom is designed to trap 1.8tn items of plastic without harming marine life - but broke apart last time
A floating device designed to catch plastic waste has been redeployed in a second attempt to clean up a huge island of garbage swirling in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii.
Boyan Slat, creator of the Ocean Cleanup project, announced on Twitter that a 600 metre (2,000ft) long floating boom that broke apart late last year was sent back to the Great Pacific garbage patch this week after four months of repair.
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