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Tag Archives: The Ocean Cleanup

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Clean up efforts won’t solve the plastic pollution crisis in the world’s seas

WasteBy Matthew GaramoneDecember 7, 2020

by Isabella Backman (Mongabay https://news.mongabay.com/) • A model simulating a device touted to clear plastic from the “Great Pacific garbage patch” shows that it would collect much less than 1 percent of the ocean’s plastic pollution by 2150.• The study was the first to quantify the device’s ability to remove marine debris.• A more comprehensive…

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What are we doing about getting rid of all the plastic floating in the ocean?

EnvironmentBy Matthew GaramoneOctober 8, 2018

Plastic in the ocean is a big problem that first came to widespread public attention in the late 1980s when mariners began sharing reports of what turned out to be a 1.6 million square kilometer garbage patch (that’s about three times the size of France) floating in the middle of the North Pacific about halfway…



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