Scientists are preparing to launch the world's first machine to clean up the planet's largest mass of ocean plastic. 科学家们正准备率先使用机器清理地球上最大海洋塑料垃圾堆。 The system, originally dreamed up by a teenager, will be shipped out this summer to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, between Hawaii and California, and which contains an estimated 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic. 该清理系统源自一名青少年的构想,将在今年夏天被运往“大太平洋垃圾带”。大太平洋垃圾带位于美国夏威夷和加利福尼亚之间,总共有大约1.8万亿片塑料。 |