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Ocean Cleanup’s New Plastic-Catcher … Kinda Already Exists?

WIRED Science: Space, Health, Biotech, and More

A little over a year ago, a group called The Ocean Cleanup launched an unprecedented campaign to rid the seas of plastic, complete with an unprecedented device: a 600-meter-long, U-shaped tube that was meant to passively gather debris in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch for a ship to come along and scoop up and take back to land.

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