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Right now, ocean cleanup crews have fished out more trash than ever before. Nonprofit environmental engineering organization Ocean Cleanup its largest got experienced earlier this month, removing approximately 11,400 kilograms of trash from an area the size of a football field in the Pacific Ocean, the organization’s representative Alex Tobin told ABC News. About 50 tons of waste had been collected in four weeks.
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a huge pile of floating garbage carried by ocean currents and winds into the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and California, is the largest of the five oceanic garbage fields in the world.
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It is difficult for scientists to determine its exact size because trash can constantly moving.
Ocean cleaners have estimated that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch has grown to twice the size of the US state of Texas.
Tens of thousands of kilograms of waste were sorted after being collected on August 10, 2023 removed from the Great Waste Field.
Floating trash can The Pacific Ocean has grown so much that it’s thriving and a new ecosystem is already developing, according to a study published in April in Nature Ecology & Evolution.
During an “extraction” trip this summer, Dutch non-profit The Ocean Cleanup removed over 70,000 pounds of garbage from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a swirl of trash in the ocean between California and Hawaii. Most of the trash is plastic.
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Garbage fields also threaten local ecosystems by entanglement in fishing nets, killing fish, including animals that eat plastic and other waste, as well as transports species from alien habitats, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reports.
It is not clear how the waste fields affect human health, but the human diet is thought to be exposed to microplastics from several sources – from the ocean, such as seafood and sea salt.
It is assumed that it will never be possible to completely rid the ocean of waste, also because some of the material will take a long time to break down in the environment, while plastic will never completely break down.
The nonprofit has a two-pronged approach to collect “plastic” and debris before UV rays break down the material into microplastics, which are nearly impossible to collect.
🐙The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a collection of marine debris that is TWICE the size of France, spans the ocean from North America to Japan😟
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One of the most notable items they’ve pulled out is a canteen from the Vietnam War era.
By the end of the month, The Ocean Cleanup will launch System03, a larger version of its current floating barrier system. Its predecessor, System02, which was used on the last mission, is about 875 yards long. The new device is about 2,400 yards long, which will allow for much more ocean cleanup.
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System03 can clean an area the size of a football field every five seconds, about twice as fast as the current system, Tobin said. The nonprofit has also used artificial intelligence computational modeling to determine where the most plastic is in the ocean, a method they called “plastic hotspot modeling.”
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