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Ocean Cleanup pilots ‘the first scalable technology’ to remove plastic waste from Earth’s waters

Ocean Cleanup pilots ‘the first scalable technology’ to remove plastic waste from Earth’s waters

Each year, 8 million tons of plastic — the equivalent of a garbage truck load every minute — is dumped into the ocean, according to the World Economic Forum.  The Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit engineering environmental organization based in the Netherlands, is attempting to remove as much of that plastic as is feasible. “Our strategy is really twofold,” The Ocean Cleanup CEO and Founder Boyan Slat said on Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “On one hand, stop the source, preventing more… Source link

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