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A floating device created to clean up plastic from the ocean is finally doing its job, organizers say
A huge trash-collecting system designed to clean up plastic floating in the Pacific Ocean is finally picking up plastic, its inventor announced Wednesday. The Netherlands-based nonprofit the Ocean Cleanup says its latest prototype was able to capture and hold debris ranging in size from huge, abandoned fishing gear, known as "ghost nets," to tiny microplastics as small as 1 millimeter.
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This is actually big news! I hope over the next decade we see huge strides made in cleaning up our oceans.