There’s been a breakthrough in the battle against plastic pollution in the world’s oceans. A company based in the Netherlands called Ocean Clean Up has announced the successful trial of a new device designed to collect huge amounts of plastic by remote control. It’s been trialed in the Great Pacific Garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean, an enormous body of plastic waste that drifts on natural currents between Hawaii and the West Coast of the US.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern arrives at a Pacific Island forum on climate change where she watches performers and socializes with children in Funafuti, Tuvalu, Wednesday, August 14, 2019.
Ardern met with Pacific Island leaders in Tuvalu, a Polynesian island country located in the Pacific Ocean, to discuss global warming.
Some of the Pacific islands are currently battling rising sea levels and other climate change impacts that have forced some residents to move to higher ground. (Reuters)
