SAN FRANCISCO— Engineers set to sea Saturday to 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 600-metre-long floating boom was being towed from San Francisco to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch — an island of trash twice the size of Texas. This long floating boom will be used to corral plastic litter in the Pacific Ocean. ( THE OCEAN CLEANUP VIA AP ) Dutch innovator Boyan Slat created this plastic collecting system, seen here suspended from the roof of a building in Utrecht, Netherlands. “One of our goals is to remove 50 per cent of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in five years,” Slat said.

Source: thestar September 08, 2018 23:48 UTC