The Ocean Cleanup device has returned from the Pacific Garbage Patch with its first load of plastic

<p>Now the plan is to recycle that plastic into products you can buy to help fund the effort.</p><br /><br /><br /><p>After months of research, failures, and&#xA0;reconfigurations,&#xA0;and weeks spent at sea traveling to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and back, The Ocean Cleanup&#x2019;s device&#x2014;a 2,000-foot long floating tube that skims the surface of the water to catch plastic trash&#x2014;has returned to shore. And with it, it brought back 60 bags, sized one cubic meter, full of plastic trash, everything from&#xA0;fishing nets to plastic bags to microplastics one millimeter in size.</p><p>Read Full Story</p><div class="feedflare"><br /> <br /></div>

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