The Ocean Voyages Institute recently announced the successful cleanup of more than 40 tons of fishing nets and plastics that drifted in waters north of the Pacific Ocean.
According to specialists, it is a point of the vast marine extension where four oceanic currents converge, creating a vortex that accumulates enormous amounts of waste. The oceanic current known as Giro del Pacifico Norte contains about 1.8 billion plastic objects weighing around 80 thousand tons. That mass of waste is between...