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.
Photograph by RANDY OLSON, Nat Geo Image Collection
The Ocean Cleanup North Sea prototype in the water on June 22, 2016 in The Hague, Netherlands.
Photograph by Michel Porro, Getty Images