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A huge floating device designed by Dutch scientists to clean up an island of rubbish in the Pacific Ocean that is three times the size of France has successfully picked up plastic from the high seas for the first time. Boyan Slat, the creator of the Ocean Cleanup project, tweeted that the 600 metre-long (2,000 ft) free-floating boom had captured and retained debris from what is known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
