Bay Area ship removes 96 tons of trash from Pacific Ocean
Nearly 100 tons of sprawling fishing nets, piles of plastic toothbrushes, laundry baskets, yoga mats, freezers and even a laundry machine arrived at the Sausalito docks this week. Fortunately for all, this haul of garbage was stored aboard a 130-foot-long sailing cargo ship that had just returned from a cleanup mission in the sprawling garbage patch floating in the Pacific Ocean. The cleanup operation was the latest to be performed by the Sausalito-based nonprofit Ocean Voyages Institute. The firm has been journeying to the swirling mass of plastic and debris located between Hawaii and California since 2009 and has removed more than 692,000 pounds of trash.
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