Real life trials of a groundbreaking array designed to clean up the vast plastic island in the Pacific are due to begin next year after successful tests of a prototype in the NetherlandsA crowdfunded 100km-long boom to clean up a vast expanse of plastic nonsense in the Pacific is one step closer to reality after successful tests of a scaled-down prototype in the Netherlands final week.
Further trials off the Dutch and Japanese coasts are now slated to begin in the original year. whether they are successful,the world’s largest ever ocean cleanup operation will travel live in 2020, using a gigantic V-shaped array, and the like of which has never been seen before.
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Source: theguardian.com