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The 25-year-old trying to rid the world's oceans of plastic just created a floating garbage truck that collects trash from rivers
The largest of these vortexes, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, is located in Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and California. It's estimated to contain more than 1.8 trillion pieces of floating ...
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The massive plastic-cleaning device invented by a 25-year-old is finally catching trash in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
In 2013, Slat founded The Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit that aims to remove plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a trash-filled vortex in the Pacific Ocean that's more than twice the size of ...
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A giant trash vortex's growing in the ocean. Now a cleanup effort's underway.
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Expert diver makes frustrating discovery while cleaning up ocean trash: 'Floating around for a long time'
One diver and ocean tour guide based in Hawaiʻi recently filmed a video of their crew pulling seemingly endless amounts of ...
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Ocean trash is building up. This artist reveals what’s out there.
He started building and photographing sculptures of ocean trash to illustrate the problem of marine pollution. Eventually he began to gather the detritus to use as his art materials, cleaning a ...