Remember that $20 million ocean cleanup project? It isn’t working

Grist
By Paola Rosa-AquinoDec 26, 2018, 4:45 pm106 pts
The $20 million effort to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch has hit a bit of a snafu. Organizers for The Ocean Cleanup, which launched the project in September, already had their work cut out for them — the floating garbage patch is made up of an estimated 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic, which has…

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