Giant Trap Is Deployed to Catch Plastic Littering the Pacific Ocean Organizers hope a 2,000-foot-long unmanned boom will collect 150,000 pounds of plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in a year. Share: Facebook Twitter Google+ Stumble Digg Email ThisBlogThis!Share to XShare to Facebook Related Posts:Op-Ed Contributor: The U.S. Is Standing in the Way of Cheaper Drugs for the PoorSinosphere: An Exiled Editor Traces the Roots of Democratic Thought in ChinaContributing Op-Ed Writer: Pakistan’s Honor-Killing Law Isn’t EnoughEditorial: President Duterte’s Confusing BehaviorSinosphere: When China Wants Better Air Readings, Cotton Does the TrickOp-Ed Contributor: How Do You Explain Trump in Russia?