Huge trash-collecting boom in Pacific Ocean breaks apart
A device deployed to collect plastic litter floating in the Pacific Ocean has broken apart and will be hauled back to dry land for repairs. Boyan Slat, who launched the cleanup project, said the 2,000-foot long floating boom will be towed to Hawaii. If it can’t be repaired there, it will be loaded on a barge and returned to its home port of Alameda, Calif. The boom broke apart under constant wind and waves in the Pacific.