The project aims to collect plastic debris from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

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A giant C-shaped tube aims to collect 50% of the debris in the patch in five years

Driven by wind and waves, the floating barrier moves with the plastic and other rubbish

Plastic moving

faster than boom

600-metre

floating tube

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Sea

anchor

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Direction

of travel

Three-metre skirt allows marine life to pass underneath

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A sea anchor slows the barrier down. Rubbish catches up and is captured by the boom

Every few weeks, a support vessel arrives to collect accumulated debris for recycling

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A giant C-shaped tube aims to collect 50% of the debris in the patch in five years

A sea anchor slows the barrier down. Rubbish catches up and is captured by the boom

600-metre

floating tube

Sea anchor

Floating plastic

moving faster than

the boom

Direction

of travel

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2

Every few weeks, a support vessel arrives to collect accumulated debris for recycling

Driven by wind and waves, the floating barrier moves with the plastic and other rubbish

Three-metre skirt allows marine life to pass underneath