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RE: There is a section of the ocean filled with plastic almost twice the size of Texas

in #life7 years ago

What has happened to people and organizations that have made attempts to clean up these great garbage patch zones? Is there any progress?

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There are some cool technologies being developed to work on this. There is a lot of manual labor involved in some of the efforts but some of it will be automated. I don't know if it is a problem that will ever be solved. Some example efforts:

Massive Clean up of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch to Start Next Year

World's largest ocean cleanup operation one step closer to launch