A non-profit organization has scraped more than 40 tons of fishing nets and consumer plastics from a region of the Pacific Ocean that’s home to a massive debris field known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
The haul includes everything from beer bottles and children’s toys to enormous ‘ghost nets’ – the abandoned fishing gear that can drift at sea for decades, trapping more garbage and marine wildlife in its path. Continue reading “Ocean cleanup effort drags 5-TON ‘ghost net’ of abandoned fishing gear from the Pacific ‘garbage patch’ as part of huge plastic haul”
