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Ocean cleanup group removes record 25,000 pounds of trash from Great Pacific Garbage Patch in one extraction

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Ocean cleanup group removes record 25,000 pounds of trash from Great Pacific Garbage Patch in one extraction

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Uplifting News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

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Ocean cleanup crews have fished out the most trash ever taken from one of the largest garbage patches in the world.

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You want me to redo it in metric football fields?!
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  Quite a significant change, when 1 km2 is about 140 (real) football fields

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