Huge plastic-collection device deployed in Pacific Ocean

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A huge plastic-collection device is being towed out from California today to try to clean up the world's largest rubbish patch in the heart of the Pacific Ocean. The 600-metre long floating boom will trap some of the estimated 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic that make up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an island of rubbish twice the size of Texas.

Source: ABC News | Duration: 1min 8sec

Topics: water-pollution, pollution, recycling-and-waste-management, united-states