Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - DW - 20180609:03:12:00
Under threat mostly due to plastic pollution eight million tons of plastic are washed into the sea every year solutions are scarce but new technologies could offer asters. five gigantic marine plastic garbage islands float around the world's ocean currents. the great pacific garbage patch drifts between hawaii and california it's four times larger than germany. happily the floating quagmire could get something of a purge this summer. the ocean cleanup is the brainchild of churchmen boy and slant it's a boom which drifts more slowly than the plastic which collects along behind it to be recovere...