How Best to Rid the World's Oceans of Plastic?

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By Lorraine ChowMay 15, 2017, 12:17 pm241 pts
The Ocean Cleanup , the Dutch foundation aiming to eliminate ocean plastic , unveiled Thursday a major design update to its highly vaunted cleanup system and announced that the technology will be deployed in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the first half of 2018, two years ahead of schedule. Boyan Slat , the…

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