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This solar-powered floating device can remove 110,000 pounds of plastic from rivers per day

Emmet Smith

The autonomous device was developed by a Dutch nonprofit organization called the Ocean Cleanup. It catches waste using floating barrier, and then guides it onto a conveyor belt where it's extracted from the water. 

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