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Plastic accumulation, System 001/B, October 2019
Crew sorting plastic into size and type classes onboard the support vessel during the System 001/B mission, 2019
Plastic caught by System 001/B in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, 2019
Crew sorting plastic into size and type classes onboard the support vessel during the System 001/B mission, 2019
Crew sorting plastic into size and type classes onboard the support vessel during the System 001/B mission, 2019

Crew sorting plastic into size and type classes onboard the support vessel during the System 001/B mission, 2019
Plastic catch being sorted onboard the vessel in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, during the System 001/B mission 2019
Plastic catch being sorted onboard the vessel in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, during the System 001/B mission 2019
Plastic catch extracted from System 001/B, 2019
Plastic in System 001/B, 2019
Conveyor belt with debris in Klang River, Malaysia, 2019
Conveyor belt with debris in Klang River, Malaysia, 2019
Crew inspecting plastic in System 001/B.
Big bags filled with plastic caught in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch by System 001/B. The Ocean Cleanup will now begin the journey to transform the plastic into products that will help fund the continuation of the cleanup.
Container with big bags of plastic on the vessel in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, during System 001/B mission 2019
Plastic accumulation observed against System 001, 2018.
First plastic accumulated by System 001 in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, October 2018.
Plastic accumulation observed against System 001.

Boyan Slat explains the plans for the plastic catch
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Plastic accumulation in System 001/B
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Plastic extraction from System 001/B
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First plastic sorting, tagging and storing
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