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WATCH: Oceans polluted with plastic

Michael Holmes speaks to Joost Dubois with The Ocean Cleanup about their efforts to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an area about three times the size of France.

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Boyan Slat: Humanity is addicted to plastic, but we can still keep it out of our oceans

The first step is to prevent more plastic from reaching the sea in the first place.
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LISTEN: The man who discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is still trying to stop ocean pollution

In 1997, Captain Charles Moore first discovered the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch,” the largest accumulation of plastic waste in the ocean. Since then, scientists have documented how plastic has permanently damaged marine ecosystems and even altered evolution — and the problem has only grown larger.

Animals are migrating to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
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Animals are migrating to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

The oceanic soup of plastic fragments is becoming a new kind of ecosystem.
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There's so much plastic floating on the ocean surface, it's spawning new marine communities

The North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, otherwise known as the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch," is considered the world's largest accumulation of ocean plastic. It's so massive, in fact, that researchers found it has been colonized by species — hundreds of miles away from their natural home.

Plastic pollution threatens marine life, humans and ecosystems. Enter FRED, a future vacuum of the ocean
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Plastic pollution threatens marine life, humans and ecosystems. Enter FRED, a future vacuum of the ocean

A nonprofit group is trying to help solve one of the planet’s most daunting problems: oceans littered with plastic.

The Ocean Cleanup device returns with plastic

Now the plan is to recycle that plastic into products you can buy to help fund the effort.
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