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In 2013, Slat founded The Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit that aims to remove plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a trash-filled vortex in the Pacific Ocean that's more than twice the size of ...

Over time, trapped debris accumulates within the stable centre of the vortex, forming a 'garbage island'. However, unlike a true island, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is not a solid mass ...