Can this project clean up millions of tons of ocean plastic?
About 9 million tons of plastic are dumped into the world’s oceans every year — enough to fill a football stadium 23 miles high. But a project dubbed the Ocean Cleanup aims to eliminate it with a method that researchers are testing in the North Sea.
This report aired on PBS NewsHour Weekend on August 14, 2016.
Producer/Writer: Saskia de Melker
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