Bungled attempt to clean up ocean rubbish using floating dragnet cancelled after device broke apart at sea

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https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8130113/ocean-cleanup-project-pacific-plastic-waste-failed/

The 2,000-foot-long barrier had aimed to collect half of the Pacific rubbish patch between California and Hawaii which covers an area three times the size of France, in five years

By Patrick Knox
6th January 2019, 12:39 am
Updated: 6th January 2019, 1:31 am

A BOTCHED multi-million pound effort to clean up ocean pollution has been halted after sweeping up no plastic waste.

A 60ft part of the £31million floating device broke away from the Pacific Ocean cleanup, which was sent to corral a swirling island of rubbish between California and Hawaii.

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  1. I saw this on the news too. I thought, isn’t it easier for everyone, all eight billion and counting, to pick up their trash and put it in a receptacle? Also, plastics can be used for fuel.

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