The Latest on a device intended to pick up garbage in the Pacific Ocean (all times local):12:15 p.m.A giant trash collection device has left San Francisco on its way to pick up plastic litter floating in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii. The 2,000-foot (600-meter) long floating boom is being towed Saturday toward the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. That's an island of trash twice the size of Texas. Engineers will deploy a trash collection device to corral plastic litter floating between California and Hawaii in an attempt to clean up the world's largest garbage patch in the heart of the Pacific Ocean. The 2,000-foot (600-meter) long floating boom will be towed Saturday from San Francisco to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch — an island of trash twice the size of Texas.

Source: ABC News September 08, 2018 19:18 UTC