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<blockquote data-quote="LotusBud" data-source="post: 401580" data-attributes="member: 1123">More than 63,000 pounds of trash.That's what a cleanup team recovered in a monthslong effort to chip away at the so-called Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a massive collection of marine debris plaguing the Pacific Ocean.A half-mile long trash-trapping system named &quot;Jenny&quot; was sent out in late July to collect waste, pulling out many items that came from humans like toothbrushes, VHS tapes, golf balls, shoes and fishing gear.Jenny made nine trash extractions over the 12-week cleanup phase, with one extraction netting nearly 20,000 pounds of debris by itself.The mountain of recovered waste arrived in British Columbia, Canada, this month, with much of it set to be recycled.The catalyst behind the cleaning is The Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit trying to rid the world's oceans of plastic.Boyan Slat, who founded the organization in 2013 at the age of 18, called the most recent testing phase a success, but said there's still much to be done.<img src="https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/LJU3MuKhXKpcXSPTf_2JJw--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTYzOTtjZj13ZWJw/https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/XqD09jOyTM7a0rdVJLllIg--~B/aD03NDU7dz0xMTIwO2FwcGlkPXl0YWNoeW9u/https://media.zenfs.com/en/usa_today_news_641/5d02dbb367de387d94058e9980f84e8a" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.yahoo.com/news/pulled-63-000-pounds-trash-100018506.html[/URL]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="LotusBud, post: 401580, member: 1123"] More than 63,000 pounds of trash. That's what a cleanup team recovered in a monthslong effort to chip away at the so-called Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a massive collection of marine debris plaguing the Pacific Ocean. A half-mile long trash-trapping system named "Jenny" was sent out in late July to collect waste, pulling out many items that came from humans like toothbrushes, VHS tapes, golf balls, shoes and fishing gear. Jenny made nine trash extractions over the 12-week cleanup phase, with one extraction netting nearly 20,000 pounds of debris by itself. The mountain of recovered waste arrived in British Columbia, Canada, this month, with much of it set to be recycled. The catalyst behind the cleaning is The Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit trying to rid the world's oceans of plastic. Boyan Slat, who founded the organization in 2013 at the age of 18, called the most recent testing phase a success, but said there's still much to be done. [IMG]https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/LJU3MuKhXKpcXSPTf_2JJw--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTYzOTtjZj13ZWJw/https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/XqD09jOyTM7a0rdVJLllIg--~B/aD03NDU7dz0xMTIwO2FwcGlkPXl0YWNoeW9u/https://media.zenfs.com/en/usa_today_news_641/5d02dbb367de387d94058e9980f84e8a[/IMG] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.yahoo.com/news/pulled-63-000-pounds-trash-100018506.html[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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