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Floating booms could only clean up 5% of plastic on the ocean surface

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Mountains of plastic waste wash into the ocean every year, and we face a big battle to clean up the mess

How we go about cleaning up the mass of plastic pollution in the ocean is a mind-bogglingly difficult question, and one that will take a range of innovative approaches to solve. A new study has cast doubt over one of the more publicized solutions in floating trash-collection barriers, finding that these devices are unlikely to put a dent in the overall problem, even if left to run well into next century.

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