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Environment

World?s First And Largest Ocean Cleanup To Begin In 2016

by The Daily Eye Team June 13 2015, 4:45 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 44 secs

The Ocean Cleanup will deploy the world's longest floating barrier in the Sea of Japan to start collecting plastic waste as part of a greater goal - cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Weekend beach cleanup campaigns would no longer do. Dubbed the world?s first and largest cleanup in history, a start-up foundation?s massive campaign to rid the oceans of plastic pollution is a step closer to reality after it signed an agreement with a Japanese island city to pilot its innovative method of collecting plastic. ?The Ocean Cleanup, founded by a 20-year-old Dutch aerospace engineering student, is looking to deploy by mid-2016 its technology which uses floating booms to collect plastic waste in the ocean. The method capitalises on the natural flow of the ocean?s rotating currents called gyres which passively concentrate the plastic in one location.

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