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Headline: The Ocean Cleanup Debut Mammoth System 03 Design To Cleanse Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Caption: Environmental non-profit The Ocean Cleanup has debuted their System 03 method of harvesting plastic waste from the seas. The new system is the latest and last of three ‘Systems’ which use ships pulling giant nets to remove items from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP). The Ocean Cleanup deployed System 03 in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch for the first time in late summer 2023. Nearly three times larger than their previous technology and capable of cleaning the area of a football field every five seconds, the arrival of System 03 marks a huge leap forward in their mission to rid the oceans of plastic. The GPGP covers a massive area – three times the size of France, or twice the size of Texas – and cleaning the whole thing requires a fleet of systems. By increasing the size of their systems Ocean Cleanup hope to make cleaning the ocean more economical. They have already removed hundreds of thousands of tonnes of plastic and aim to scale up to have a fleet of similar systems. System 03 isn’t just ‘the next version’ of the organisation’s cleaning technology. It’s the culmination of years of design, testing, refinement, and operation in real-world conditions.
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