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  2. Project Kaisei - Wikipedia

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    Project Kaisei (from 海星, kaisei, "ocean planet" in Japanese [1]) is a scientific and commercial mission to study and clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a large body of floating plastic and marine debris trapped in the Pacific Ocean by the currents of the North Pacific Gyre. [2]

  3. The Ocean Cleanup - Wikipedia

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    The Ocean Cleanup is a nonprofit environmental engineering organization based in the Netherlands that develops and deploys technology to extract plastic pollution from the oceans and to capture it in rivers before it can reach the ocean. Their initial focus was on the Pacific Ocean and its garbage patch, and extended to rivers in countries ...

  4. Boyan Slat - Wikipedia

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    The group's mission is to develop advanced technologies to rid the world's oceans of plastic. [11] It raised US$2.2 million through a crowd funding campaign with the help of 38,000 donors from 160 countries. [12] In June 2014, the Ocean Cleanup published a 528-page feasibility study [13] about the project's potential.

  5. Ocean Cleanup pilots ‘the first scalable technology’ to ...

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    Each year, 8 million tons of plastic — the equivalent of a garbage truck load every minute — is dumped into the ocean. Ocean Cleanup pilots ‘the first scalable technology’ to remove ...

  6. North Atlantic garbage patch - Wikipedia

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    [5] [10] The concentration of plastic in the North Atlantic garbage patch has stayed mostly constant even though global plastic production has increased five-fold over the course of the 22-year study. [11] This may be caused by the plastics sinking beneath the surface or breaking down into smaller pieces that can pass through the net. [11]

  7. Great Pacific Garbage Patch could be eliminated in 10 years ...

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    For the record: 3:54 p.m. Sept. 7, 2024: A previous version of this article said that Ocean Cleanup vessels had removed more than a million tons of trash in three years.The amount was a million pounds

  8. Big Blue Ocean Cleanup - Wikipedia

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    Big Blue Ocean Cleanup was established on 27 February 2018, by Rory Sinclair. [1] In March 2019, it supported the “Cash for trash” initiative, launched by an APEM freshwater consultancy. [4] [5] On 22 April 2020 (the Earth Day), Big Blue Ocean Cleanup was featured in Zac Efron’s documentary The Great Global Clean Up, aired on Discovery ...

  9. It Costs Over $11 Billion Per Year To Clean Up Litter - AOL

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    COVID-19-induced lifestyle changes required lots of plastic: Plastic demand soared throughout the pandemic for all kinds of purposes, but food containers and bubble wrap for package deliveries ...