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

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