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Find out How a Giant Floating Barrier is Trapping Plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

  • Writer: Caline Malek
    Caline Malek
  • Oct 3, 2018
  • 1 min read

  • The system consists of a 600-meter-long floating barrier that sits at the surface of the water with a three-meter-deep skirt below

  • The buoyant floating barrier prevents plastic from flowing over it, while the skirt stops debris from escaping underneath

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