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  2. The Ocean Cleanup - Wikipedia

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    It was founded in 2013 by Boyan Slat, a Dutch inventor [3] [4] [5] who serves as its CEO. It develops both ocean and river systems. Its ocean system consists of a floating barrier at the surface of the water deployed in oceanic gyres to collect marine debris, [6] designed in a shape to funnel the debris into a collecting net, or directly into a wide-mouthed boat for on-site processing. The ...

  3. Marine plastic pollution - Wikipedia

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    Marine plastic pollution is a type of marine pollution by plastics, ranging in size from large original material such as bottles and bags, down to microplastics formed from the fragmentation of plastic material. Marine debris is mainly discarded human rubbish which floats on, or is suspended in the ocean. Eighty percent of marine debris is plastic. [1] [2] Microplastics and nanoplastics result ...

  4. Plastic pollution in the Mediterranean sea - Wikipedia

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    It has concentrations of microplastics which are estimated to be higher than those on average found at the global level. [8] Studies conducted within the WWF Mediterranean Marine Initiative of 2019 [6] have estimated that 0.57 million metric tons of plastic enter the Mediterranean Sea every year; this quantity corresponds to the dumping of 33.800 bottles made of plastic into waters every ...

  5. Plastic entering oceans could nearly triple by 2040 if ... - AOL

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    The study looked at surface-level plastic pollution data from 11,777 ocean stations in six major marine regions covering the period from 1979 to 2019.

  6. Seaweed and Peas? Finalists for Tom Ford Plastic Innovation ...

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    The Tom Ford Plastic Innovation Prize committee selected eight finalists for its polybag innovation competition. With plastic pollution a perpetual problem, the competition — a joint effort ...

  7. Garbage patch - Wikipedia

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    The Great Pacific garbage patch (also Pacific trash vortex and North Pacific garbage patch [9]) is a garbage patch, a gyre of marine debris particles, in the central North Pacific Ocean. It is located roughly from 135°W to 155°W and 35°N to 42°N. [10] The collection of plastic and floating trash originates from the Pacific Rim, including countries in Asia, North America, and South America ...