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FILE – In this archival photo of September 8, 2018, a ship catches the first garbage collector floating from The Ocean Cleanup to the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco en route to the Pacific Ocean. (AP Photo / Lorin Eleni Gill, File)
LOS ANGELES – A garbage collection device made in a plastic litter floating in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii is broken and will be brought back to the mainland to be there repaired.
Boyan Slat, who launched the Pacific Ocean Clean Up Project, told NBC News last week that the 2,000-foot long floating dam would be towed 800 miles to Hawaii. .
If it can not be repaired on the spot, it will be loaded onto a barge and brought back to its home port of Alameda, California
The boom breaks under the wind and constant waves in The pacific.
Slat says he is disappointed, but is not discouraged and promises that operations will resume as soon as possible.
"This is a brand new category of machinery under extremely difficult conditions," said the Dutch inventor, aged 24. "We've always taken into account that we may have to pick it up several times, so it's not a big change from the original plan."
FILE – In this photo of May 11, 2017, the Dutch innovator Boyan Slat poses for a portrait next to a pile of plastic waste before a press conference in Utrecht, the Netherlands. (AP Photo / Peter Dejong, File)
Previously, Slat said the boom was moving slower than plastic, allowing the waste to fly away.
A ship towed the U-shaped barrier in September between San Francisco and the Great Pacific Garbage Patch – an island filled with garbage twice the size of Texas. It had been in place since the end of October.
The plastic barrier with a 10-foot deep tapered screen is supposed to act as a shoreline, trapping some of the 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic that scientists believe is swirling in the sea. marine life to swim safely below it.
Slat said he hoped to one day be able to deploy 60 devices to remove plastic debris from the surface of the ocean.
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