We’ve made a mess of the Earth’s oceans. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) — which is exactly what it sounds like — is estimated to cover an area of over 1.6 million square kilometers (620,000 square miles). It contains thousands of tons of plastic waste, and more plastic flows into the oceans around the world from rivers every day. Worse, the rate of plastic discarded into the ocean seems to only be growing. Luckily, the folks at The Ocean Cleanup have been trying to mitigate some of the damage we’ve caused to the planet (you know, besides global warming).…
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