Causeskees torn/Flickr/https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ 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.
www.nytimes.com 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.
