Slat, Boyan. “First 100,000 Kg Removed from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch • UPDATES •

The Ocean Cleanup.” The Ocean Cleanup, 25 July 2022,

https://theoceancleanup.com/updates/first-100000-kg-removed-from-the-great-pacific-garbage-patch/. 

 

This article is about how now there has officially been over 100,000 kg extracted from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The machine they are using to pick up the trash is called System 002, and it was first put in the water in August 2021, and in only 45 removals it has removed 101,353 kg from the GPGP (Great Pacific Garbage Patch). Due to the 7,173 kg of already removed trash from an earlier machine, there has now been 108,526 kg removed from the GPGP. Now, they are moving on to a new prototype, System 03, and this is predicted to remove trash around ten times faster than the previous machine.

 

This article is related to environmental science because it is very important news about the cleanup of the ocean. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is 1.6 million square kilometers of trash in the middle of the pacific ocean. This pollution in the ocean is a large issue for our environment because it is harming the ecosystem. I think that this is very important and that they are doing a very good job beginning to clear it up. There is definitely still a long way to go, but this is a big improvement.