Factoid/2017/08/18
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Largest Marine Plastic Clean-up System to Deploy within 12 Months
- "Located between Hawaii and California, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the largest of the five global Garbage Patches. In May 2017, The Ocean Cleanup team unveiled the latest improved design that will enable the start of the extraction of plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch within the next 12 months—two years ahead of schedule." Members of the Ocean Cleanup team note that “[w]e will not be able to get every last gram of plastic out of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, but calculations show we can remove 50% in just five years from deployment of our system. An 80% to 90% reduction should be possible by 2050." - excerpts from Ocean News & Technology.
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