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Plastic pollution in ocean

Giant plastic-cleaning system headed to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Source: Business Insider

While still a teenager, Boyan Slat of the Netherlands founded the Ocean Cleanup to address the environmental disaster of plastic marine debris. Now one of his ideas is being put into action. But will it work?

This entry was posted in Dealing with Disaster and tagged Science & Nature, Technology on October 1, 2018 by Mikki Gibson.

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