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This is a start on collecting the estimated 100 million kg of plastics in the Patch.
https://www.castanet.net/news/BC/37...ls-100-000-kg-of-plastic-garbage-from-Pacific
An environmental group dedicated to removing plastic from rivers and oceans recently hit a milestone by hauling more than 100,000 kilograms of plastic out of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
The Ocean Cleanup, a non-profit organization based in the Netherlands, launched an expedition a year ago from Victoria’s Ogden Point to test a system designed to gather floating garbage from the patch, located between California and Hawaii, and haul it onto a ship using a net.
https://www.castanet.net/news/BC/37...ls-100-000-kg-of-plastic-garbage-from-Pacific
The new iteration will be able to collect more garbage at a lower cost per kilogram on an ongoing basis, it said.
The goal is to scale up to operate a fleet of the systems.
Slat established the organization in 2013 out of concern about the impact of plastic on marine life, which can die as a result of becoming trapped in plastic or eating it, since plastics break down into microsizes that work through the food chain.