An Engineering Wunderkind's Ocean Plastics Cleanup Device Hits A Setback
Published: January 5, 20195:04 PM ET
Author: Michel Martin, Weekend Host, All Things Considered
In September, a 2,000-foot-long floating barrier, shaped like a U, was dispatched to the Great Pacific garbage patch between Hawaii and California, where roughly 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic have formed a floating field of debris roughly twice the size of Texas. Made of connected plastic pipes, the barrier was meant to catch and clean-up the plastic.