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| Great Pacific garbage patch: giant plastic trap put to sea again | |
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| 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. | 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. | |
| Plastic pollution: can the ocean really be cleaned up? | Plastic pollution: can the ocean really be cleaned up? |
| A ship towed the U-shaped barrier from San Francisco to the patch in September to trap the plastic. But during the four months at sea, the boom broke apart under constant waves and wind and the boom was not retaining the plastic it caught. | |
| “Hopefully nature doesn’t have too many surprises in store for us this time,” Slat tweeted. “Either way, we’re set to learn a lot from this campaign.” | “Hopefully nature doesn’t have too many surprises in store for us this time,” Slat tweeted. “Either way, we’re set to learn a lot from this campaign.” |
| Fitted with solar-powered lights, cameras, sensors and satellite antennas, the device intends to communicate its position at all times, allowing a support vessel to fish out the collected plastic every few months and transport it to dry land. | Fitted with solar-powered lights, cameras, sensors and satellite antennas, the device intends to communicate its position at all times, allowing a support vessel to fish out the collected plastic every few months and transport it to dry land. |
| The plastic barrier with a tapered three metre deep (10ft deep) screen is intended to act like a coastline, trapping some of the 1.8tn pieces of plastic that scientists estimate are swirling in the patch while allowing marine life to safely swim beneath it. | |
| And we’re on our way! https://t.co/VCMDHqpB7S | And we’re on our way! https://t.co/VCMDHqpB7S |
| During its first run, the organisation said marine biologists on board the support vessel did not observe any environmental impact. | During its first run, the organisation said marine biologists on board the support vessel did not observe any environmental impact. |
| Slat has said he hopes one day to deploy 60 of the devices to skim plastic debris off the surface of the ocean. | Slat has said he hopes one day to deploy 60 of the devices to skim plastic debris off the surface of the ocean. |
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