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Ocean Cleanup Project Completes Great Pacific Garbage Patch Research Expedition

hypnosec writes: The reconnaissance mission of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, dubbed the Mega Expedition by Ocean Clean, has been concluded. The large-scale cleanup of the area is set to begin in 2020. The primary goal of the Mega Expedition was to accurately determine how much plastic is floating in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This was the first time large pieces of plastic, such as ghost nets and Japanese tsunami debris, have been quantified. “I’ve studied plastic in all the world’s oceans, but never seen any area as polluted as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch,” said Dr. Julia Reisser, Lead Oceanographer at The Ocean Cleanup. “With every trawl we completed, thousands of miles from land, we just found lots and lots of plastic.”

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  1. Re: Garbage what? by ChrisMaple · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The problem with "comprehensive" reforms is that "Fix this, fix that, fix the other thing" is replaced with leftist "destroy everything".
    To use your immigration example, "comprehensive reform" would be advertising for and providing luxury cruises from Somalia to Cape Cod, with cash incentives given to those with ebola or flesh-eating infections.

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