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Oceans polluted with plastic

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.

Giant trap is deployed to catch plastic littering the Pacific Ocean
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Giant trap is deployed to catch plastic littering the Pacific Ocean

Organizers hope a 2,000-foot-long unmanned boom will collect 150,000 pounds of plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in a year.
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