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Uplifting News@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years ago

Ocean cleanup group removes record 25,000 pounds of trash from Great Pacific Garbage Patch in one extraction

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Ocean cleanup group removes record 25,000 pounds of trash from Great Pacific Garbage Patch in one extraction

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Uplifting News@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years ago

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Ocean cleanup crews have fished out the most trash ever taken from one of the largest garbage patches in the world.

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Something something metric system
- @I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world
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  You want me to redo it in metric football fields?!
  - @Ricaz@lemmy.ml
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    2•2 years ago
    Quite a significant change, when 1 km2 is about 140 (real) football fields

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