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A nearly 2,000-foot-long tube is towed offshore from San Francisco Bay on Saturday. It's a giant garbage collector and the brainchild of 24-year-old Boyan Slat, who aims to remove 90 percent of ocean plastic by 2040.

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Environment

A Massive Floating Boom Is Supposed To Clean Up The Pacific. Can It Work?

5:54pm September 11, 2018

by Laurel Wamsley

The giant, U-shaped tube is designed to form a garbage-corralling barrier propelled by wind and waves. Its creator hopes to remove half the plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in five years.

Single-use plastic bags like these are going to be phased out by Kroger supermarkets.

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Health & Safety

Attention, Shoppers: Kroger Says It Is Phasing Out Plastic Bags

2:30pm August 23, 2018

by Merrit Kennedy

The Kroger Co. includes major chains such as Ralphs, Harris Teeter, Food4Less and Pick 'n Save. Its goal is to eliminate all single-use plastic bags by 2025.

A prep cook at a San Francisco restaurant drops fish skin into a food scrap recycling container. Turning food waste into fertilizer is popular in parts of Europe and is catching on in the U.S. But tiny plastics are also making their way into that fertiliz

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Environment

Another Place Plastics Are Turning Up: Organic Fertilizer From Food Waste

6:11pm April 06, 2018

by Christopher Joyce

Turning food waste into fertilizer is popular in parts of Europe and is catching on in the U.S. But tiny plastics are also making their way into that fertilizer — and into the food chain.

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