Ocean Cleanup's supersized system proves its worth with "massive" haul

Plastic waste hauled aboard in the latest test of OCP's trash-hauling system
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Back in August, the Ocean Cleanup Project returned to the waters of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch with a redesigned trash-collecting system that was its largest yet, and it has just reigned in a "massive" haul of plastic waste.

The latest OCP trash-collecting system is finally at scale to make a real difference in cleaning up the oceans' garbage patches of plastic.  Plastic which otherwise might not degrade for centuries and would wind up in the food chain, and in us.