Floating trash collector has setback in Pacific Garbage Patch - 1
Published 7 Jan 2019, 11:15 GMT
Plastics like these bottles are targeted for cleanup by the Ocean Cleanup's rubbish collection machine, which launched as a test on Saturday, September 8, 2018.
The Ocean Cleanup North Sea prototype in the water on June 22, 2016 in The Hague, Netherlands.
Photograph by Michel Porro, Getty Images