'Ocean Cleanup' ship sweeps first Pacific plastic

The plastic harvesting ship aims to cleanse the Great Pacific Garbage Patch of half of its waste within just five years.

A special ship designed to clean the oceans has harvested its first plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch since setting sail from San Francisco last month, its Dutch inventor said Wednesday.

The project by The Ocean Cleanup, a Dutch non-profit group, involves a supply ship towing a floating boom that corrals marine plastic with the aim of cleaning half of the infamous patch within five years.


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