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  • 1/12/2021
The Dutch not-for-profit Ocean Cleanup believes it can halve the Pacific Garbage Patch in just five years using a unique 600-metre-long floating boom and a three-metre impenetrable skirt that hangs in the water beneath it to collect the plastic.

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