Long device to corral plastic floating between CA and HI in attempt to clean up Great Pacific Garbag

[TexasTowelie]

Long device to corral plastic floating between California and Hawaii in attempt to clean up Great Pacific Garbage Patch


SAN FRANCISCO >> Engineers will deploy a trash collection device to corral plastic litter floating between California and Hawaii in an attempt to clean up the world’s largest garbage patch in the heart of the Pacific Ocean.

The 2,000-foot (600-meter) long floating boom will be towed Saturday from San Francisco to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch — an island of trash twice the size of Texas.

The system was created by The Ocean Cleanup, an organization founded by Boyan Slat, a 24-year-old innovator from the Netherlands who first became passionate about cleaning the oceans when he went scuba diving at age 16 in the Mediterranean Sea and saw more plastic bags than fish.

“The plastic is really persistent and it doesn’t go away by itself and the time to act is now,” Slat said, adding that researchers with his organization found plastic going back to the 1960s and 1970s bobbing in the patch.

Read more: http://www.staradvertiser.com/2018/09/08/breaking-news/long-device-to-corral-plastic-floating-between-cali-and-hawaii-in-attempt-to-clean-up-great-pacific-garbage-patch/

[msongs]

1. antigue and collectable plastic. shoulda save all that 70's stuff lol nt

[defacto7]

2. Does anyone know if the garbage patch is on the map?

For instance google earth. Something twice the size of Texas floating in the ocean should be on the map. I'd keep an eye on it to see if it shrinks or increases.

[TexasTowelie]

3. Since part of the patch is submerged under water it does not show up on any satellite imagery.

[defacto7]

5. Thank you. Too bad it can't be monitored by everyone.

I think it would make a clear statement.

[OnlinePoker]

4. Live stream of launch starting shortly

https://www.theoceancleanup.com/system001/