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Ambitious effort to clean up "great Pacific garbage patch" gets underway

A ship in the San Francisco Bay will start towing a device more than 1,000 miles out to sea where it will begin the process of gathering a heap of ocean-bound garbage estimated to weigh 88,000 tons. Carter Evans reports.
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