Giant Pac-Man: Ocean Cleanup's final design to eat away at the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

The Ocean Cleanup's trash-collecting barriers have been through a number of iterations since their conception around five years ago. The latest, and the final version that will be towed out to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch later in the year, cleverly harnesses the power of wind and surface waves to autonomously sweep through the area, gathering up plastic waste as it goes.

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Category: Environment

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• Ocean
• Ocean Cleanup project
• Plastics

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