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3/25/2025

There's an 8th continent. And it's made of plastic.

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00:34Every year millions of tons of plastic enters the oceans

00:37and it then concentrates in five areas in the world

00:40called ocean garbage patches.

00:42And the largest one of these is the infamous

00:44Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

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01:29What we then figured was instead of going after the plastic,

01:32we let the plastic come to us using very long floating barriers

01:36which sort of float around to let the ocean clean itself

01:40by using the natural ocean currents in our advantage.

01:42And now it turns out we can actually clean up 50%

01:45of this garbage patch in just five years time.

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