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http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2014\/04\/140414-ocean-garbage-patch-plastic-pacific-debris\/<\/a>\n\nThe Best Way to Deal With Ocean Trash\nPlastic debris doubles every decade. What ends up in the ocean is nearly\nimpossible to clean up.\n\nBy Laura Parker\nNational Geographic\nPUBLISHED APRIL 14, 2014\n\nTony Haymet, former director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography,\nhas heard hundreds of ocean cleanup plans. Late at night, over many\nbeers, he's come up with a few dozen of his own. None of them, he says,\nhas seemed likely to work.\n\nThat includes this spring's offerings. A Dutch engineering student,\nBoyan Slat, envisions a contraption with massive booms that would sweep\ndebris into a huge funnel. Songwriter and music producer Pharrell\nWilliams wants to fund the monumental cost of any cleanup by turning\nrecycled ocean plastic into yarn and then clothes.\n\nThe challenge is huge. For one thing, the garbage is spread over\nmillions of square miles. For another, it's made up mostly of degraded\nplastic, broken down by sunlight and waves into tiny bits the size of\ngrains of rice.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2014\/04\/140414-ocean-garbage-patch-plastic-pacific-debris\/ The Best Way to Deal With Ocean Trash Plastic debris doubles every decade. What ends up in the ocean is nearly impossible to clean up. By Laura Parker National Geographic PUBLISHED APRIL 14, 2014 Tony Haymet, former director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, has heard hundreds of ocean cleanup plans. Late at night, over many beers, he’s come up with a few dozen of his own. None of them, he says, has seemed likely to work. That includes this spring’s offerings. A Dutch engineering student, Boyan Slat, envisions a contraption with massive booms that would sweep debris into a huge funnel. Songwriter and music producer Pharrell Williams wants to fund the monumental cost of any cleanup by turning recycled ocean plastic into yarn and then clothes. The challenge is huge. For one thing, the garbage is spread over millions of square miles. For another, it’s made up mostly of degraded plastic, broken down by sunlight and waves into tiny bits the size of grains of rice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3504,3488],"tags":[1309,1585],"yoast_head":"\nThe Best Way to Deal With Ocean Trash - One Earth - One Ocean e. V.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/oneearth-oneocean.com\/en\/nonresearch-en\/2014\/the-best-way-to-deal-with-ocean-trash\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Best Way to Deal With Ocean Trash - One Earth - One Ocean e. 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