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Accumulated over more than half a century plastic just doesn't go away. at the age of sixteen she decided to tackle the problem eight years on his ocean cleanup is now becoming a reality the floating boom system devised to collect this debris was recently towed five hundred kilometers from the port where it was assembled pass prominent san francisco landmarks and out into the open ocean. after years of planning the twenty four year old dutchman finally wants to prove what his huge garbage catcher can really do clean up the world's largest marine garbage dump the so-called great pacific garbage...

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Bags. fox news cannot confirm that the tar balls came from the deep water horizon spill in the gulf of mexico but officials stay is highly unusual to see that much oil washed up there. if the testing shows they did come from the bp spill, it would prove that some of the oil has been swept around florida's peninsula. meanwhile the tar balls found in texas over the weekend are, indeed, linked to the bp spill. crews found them washed ashore in the galveston area. the government's point man on the response admiral thad allen says the oil was chem mickly matched to the leaking well. but he says it ...

Condition of the seas. when you have three to five-foot waves, unless you have a huge skimmer with a large boom system, it becomes a problem. the a whale could be that vessel, but tests of the a whale have been inconclusive. skimming and burning, those efforts they have undertaken since almost day one, have been inconsistent. >> they've got another vessel. >> that helix producer. that's the third one. they're going to bring in a fourth. they're in the process of hooking up the helix. two will be the primary vessels. they think they can capture the majority of it and get it to shore and get it ...

This cane like grass that grows in clumps, basically these islands of cane, and when you look at it, shane, you can see some discoloration, is that mud or is that oil? >> this area right here has been impacted already, it was impacted probably two to three weeks ago, not as heavy as some of the other areas, but it was impacted. >> reporter: basically they're using the dual boom system, first they lay down that sort of hard plastic boom, it's either yellow or red, it's designed to repel that oil and then they bring in the absorb bent boom which actually works in a partnership with the natural w...