Could this be the solution to cleaning up the plastic floating in our oceans?
The Dutch-designed Ocean Cleanup rubbish collection system will anchor a 600-metre floater in the open water to pick up plastic.
The team behind it believe the system, which includes a three-metre deep skirt below surface, can half the Great Pacific Garbage Patch - 80,000 tonnes of plastic rubbish floating between California and Hawaii - within five years.
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