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Your device needs to REEL, SWEEP, SCOOP, or GRAB plastic trash.

Your device can be focused on any kind of plastic trash in the ocean, and can use any materials you have at home. Consider incorporating recycled materials in your design for some extra "trash in action" power. Be creative and determined!

Take a look at this slideshow for materials and design ideas!

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4th Grade: Come to class on Friday at 1pm prepared to discuss and debate your Pros & Cons chart! 

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4th Grade: Come to class on Friday at 1pm prepared to discuss and debate your Pros & Cons chart! 

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LOOK BELOW for detailed instructions.

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Brainstorm Part 1: what kind of plastic trash will you remove?

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Brainstorm Part 1: what kind of plastic trash will you remove?

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Are you trying to remove bags, bottles, microplastics, wrappers, straws, or something else?
Consider that the size and type of trash you want to remove and base your design off of that.

For example, if you want to remove small microplastics, you will want a trash collector device that can capture tiny particles (so perhaps some kind of fine mesh net). If you are working to remove bags, you will want a different design that perhaps reels in the bags.

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Collecting plastic on the open sea and then making a small seat with it, all done from a fishing boat

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Short film about collecting plastic to make a chair on a fishing boat at sea. 
Read more at www.studioswine.com

Since the discovery of the Pacific Garbage Patch in 1997, which is predicted to measure twice the size of Texas, five more have been found across the world’s oceans with the Atlantic gyre predicted to be even larger. This plastic takes thousands of years to degrade, remaining in the environment to be broken up into ever smaller fragments by ocean currents.

The gyre stretches from the coastlines of California to the shores of Japan. Recent studies have estimated 46,000 pieces of plastic per square kilometer of the world’s oceans. The number of plastic pieces in the Pacific Ocean has tripled in the last ten years and the size of the accumulation is set to double in the next ten.

Sea Chair is made entirely from plastic recovered from our oceans. Together with local fishermen, Studio Swine collects and processes the marine plastic into a stool at sea.

Credits
Concept & Design : Studio Swine 
Director : Juriaan Booij
Music : Elisa Luu / 22 Marz

Links
studioswine.com
juriaanbooij.com

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Watch this brief video from Mystery Science to learn more. Consider the "good side" of plastic and the "bad side" of plastic.

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Voting for this episode is now closed. Would you like to vote on the most recent poll?

I pulled three questions from my jar. Which question do you want to explore next week?

What makes food delicious?

-Xiomara, 3rd Grade

Why do different instruments make different sounds?

-Sadye, 5th Grade

Why do we have allergies?

-Justice, 2nd Grade

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Voting for this episode is now closed. Would you like to vote on the most recent poll? I pulled three questions from my jar. Which question do you want to explore next week? What makes food delicious? -Xiomara, 3rd Grade Why do different instruments make different sounds?

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Read this short article. If you need support, click on "text to speech" feature and follow along that way.
**to access article, you might need to click on "I'm a student" and put in our class password - "science3"

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Recently, scientists have found tiny pieces of plastic in the ocean, in drinking water, and even in table salt. Now they've found it in an even odder place: human poop!

Plastic is a useful material-cheap, lightweight, and strong. But it doesn't completely biodegrade, or break down, over time. Instead, it splits into tiny pieces. These microplastics remain in the environment for hundreds of years.

To find out if microplastics make their way inside our bodies, researchers at the Medical University of Vienna in Austria recently examined the stool of eight people. All the samples contained microplastics. Now scientists need to determine how the plastic ended up there and what it might mean for our health.

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Poop Plastic Physical Science Article for Students | Scholastic SuperScience Magazine

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Recently, scientists have found tiny pieces of plastic in the ocean, in drinking water, and even in table salt. Now they've found it in an even odder place: human poop! Plastic is a useful material-cheap, lightweight, and strong. But it doesn't completely biodegrade, or break down, over time.

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Create a pros & cons chart about plastic 

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Create a pros & cons chart about plastic 

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Apply what you learned in Column #2 to fill out this chart.
You can draw your own or download this document and use it. Use bullet points to list why plastic is helpful and "good" and why plastic has negative impacts as well.

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Turn in your Plastic Pros/Cons Chart to this Google Drive folder 

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Turn in your Plastic Pros/Cons Chart to this Google Drive folder 

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1. Open this folder and drag/drop your word document or a photo of your work in here.
2. Make sure your document is titled with YOUR NAME and Plastic Chart. For example, mine would be "Anastassia Plastic Chart".
3. If you need help, email sbeard@mttam.org or aradeva@mttam.org.

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The Reality of Plastic: Engineering For Good

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The Reality of Plastic: Engineering For Good

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This 2 min video highlights how plastic is made and what happens to it once we use it.
Once you click the link, just enter your first name and click "Finish Lesson" to access video.

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Inspire your students with thousands of free teaching resources including videos, lesson plans, and games aligned to state and national standards.

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The Ocean Cleanup's Plastic Garbage Collector Device

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The Ocean Cleanup's Plastic Garbage Collector Device

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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 (2,000ft) free-floating boom had captured and retained debris from what is known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Alongside a picture of the collected rubbish, which includes a car wheel, Slat wrote: "Our ocean cleanup system is now finally catching plastic, from one-ton ghost nets to tiny microplastics! Also, anyone missing a wheel?"

About 600,000 to 800,000 metric tonnes of fishing gear is abandoned or lost at sea each year. Another 8m tonnes of plastic waste flows in from beaches.

Ocean currents have brought a vast patch of such detritus together halfway between Hawaii and California, where it is kept in rough formation by an ocean gyre, a whirlpool of currents. It is the largest accumulation of plastic in the world's oceans.

Crew members sort through plastic onboard a support vessel in the Pacific. Photograph: AP

The vast cleaning system is designed to not only collect discarded fishing nets and large visible plastic objects, but also microplastics.

The plastic barrier floating on the surface of the sea has a three metre-deep (10ft) screen below it, which is intended to trap some of the 1.8tn pieces of plastic without disturbing the marine life below.

The device is fitted with transmitters and sensors so it can communicate its position via satellites to a vessel that will collect the gathered rubbish every few months.

Slat told a press conference in Rotterdam that the problem he was seeking to solve was the vast expense that would come with using a trawler to collect plastics.

He said: "We are now catching plastics ... After beginning this journey seven years ago, this first year of testing in the unforgivable environment of the high seas strongly indicates that our vision is attainable and that the beginning of our mission to rid the ocean of plastic garbage, which has accumulated for decades, is within our sights.

"We now have a self-contained system in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch that is using the natural forces of the ocean to passively catch and concentrate plastics ... This now gives us sufficient confidence in the general concept to keep going on this project."

The plastic gathered so far will be brought to shore in December for recycling. The project believes there may be a premium market for items that have been made using plastic reclaimed from the ocean.

"I think in a few years' time when we have the full-scale fleet out there, I think it should be possible to cover the operational cost of the cleanup operation using the plastic harvested," Slat said.

The plan is to now scale up the device and make it more durable so it can retain plastic for up to a year or possibly longer before collection is necessary.

The Ocean Cleanup project's system retains plastic in front of an extended cork line. Photograph: AP

During a previous four-month trial the boom broke apart and no plastic was collected. Since then, changes have been made to the design including the addition of a "parachute anchor" to slow down the device's movement in the ocean, allowing for faster-moving plastic debris to float into the system.

The latest trial began in June when the system was launched into the sea from Vancouver. The project was started in 2013 and its design has undergone several major revisions. It is hoped the final design will be able to clean up half of the debris in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

This article was amended on 4 October 2019 to clarify system location details.

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Ocean cleanup device successfully collects plastic for first time

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Floating boom finally retains debris from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, creator says

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Read carefully and be ready to share information about how plastic straws end up in the ocean. watch the video

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Learn how these artists express creativity with ocean plastic pollution

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Richard Lang and Judith Selby Lang have been collecting plastic debris off one beach in Northern California for over ten years. Each piece of plastic Richard and Judith pick up comes back to their house, where it gets cleaned, categorized and stored before being used for their art. The couple make sculptures, prints, jewelry and installations with the plastic they find washed up, raising a deeper concern with the problem of plastic pollution in our seas.

To learn more about their work, visit:

beachplastic.com/​
plasticforever.blogspot.com/​

and to learn more about the Gyre:
en.wikipedia.org/​wiki/​Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch

Camera / Edit - Eric Slatkin
Producer - Tess Thackara

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Plastic Ocean film was created with waste collected from the streets of Bangkok, hopefully before it reaches our rivers and oceans.

Our concept was to create an underwater world re-imagining plastic waste into dream like coral sculptures, vibrant sea creature puppets that tell a metaphorical message we hope will inspire change.

www.nicemonster.tv

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What Is Marine Debris? | A Cartoon Crash Course

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If you don't have printer access, you can open this PDF and respond on a separate blank sheet of paper.

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Submit "Where Waste Goes" Map on Google Drive folder. 

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Submit "Where Waste Goes" Map on Google Drive folder. 

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Be sure to put your NAME Waste Map as the title of your submission. For example: Suzanne Waste Map.

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Top 4 Most Commonly Found Garbage in the Pacific Garbage Patch (whole & broken down)

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Top 4 Most Commonly Found Garbage in the Pacific Garbage Patch (whole & broken down)

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-Plastic Bags
-Plastic Bottle Caps
-Plastic Bottles
-Styrofoam

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Ocean Pollution and Calls to Action 1 (for extra reference)

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Ocean Pollution and Calls to Action 1 (for extra reference)

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Ocean Pollution and Calls to Action 2 (for extra reference)

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Ocean Pollution and Calls to Action 2 (for extra reference)

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Watch to learn about how this group of students makes a difference.
Once you click the link, just enter your first name and click "Finish Lesson" to access video.

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Inspire your students with thousands of free teaching resources including videos, lesson plans, and games aligned to state and national standards.

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what you need to know about plastic pollution | 2019-20 | ss07-040120

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Golf Ball Cleanup Physical Science Article for Students | Scholastic SuperScience Magazine

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How a California teen led a team to remove golf balls from the Pacific Ocean

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Start with this video about Mr. Trash Wheel

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Start with this video about Mr. Trash Wheel

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Solar-Powered Water Wheel Cleans Baltimore Harbor | NBC News

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Read a Scholastic article about a trash collector prototype in Baltimore

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Read a Scholastic article about a trash collector prototype in Baltimore

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For support with the vocabulary, there is a "text to speech" feature imbedded in the article (button is on the left hand side once you open the article).

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Trash Collector Engineering Article for Students | Scholastic SuperScience Magazine

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Meet the litter-gobbling machine in Baltimore's harbor

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Rewatch "Mr. Trash Wheel" video at bottom of the article and THINK about these questions. It is optional to leave comments below. (If you do, please add your name.)

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Rewatch "Mr. Trash Wheel" video at bottom of the article and THINK about these questions. It is optional to leave comments below. (If you do, please add your name.)

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1) What types of trash did you see floating in the water?

2) How do you think those items ended up in Baltimore's harbor?

3) Have you seen something similar in your own neighborhood or community? in the Bay Area?

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Explore National Geographic's Ocean Plastic Innovation Challenge

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Explore National Geographic's Ocean Plastic Innovation Challenge

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Photograph by Justin Hofman, National Geographic ; Mohamed Abdulraheem, Shutterstock (Design Track) ; Photograph by GCShutter, Getty Images (Circular Economy Track) ; Hero Images, Getty Images (Data Visualization Track) ; Randy Olson, National Geographic (Planet or Plastic?) ; Jing Cai/EyeEM (Courtesy Sky Ocean VentureS) ; Danita Delimont, Getty Images (More Ways to Make a Difference)

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Photograph by Justin Hofman, National Geographic ; Mohamed Abdulraheem, Shutterstock (Design Track) ; Photograph by GCShutter, Getty Images (Circular Economy Track) ; Hero Images, Getty Images (Data Visualization Track) ; Randy Olson, National Geographic (Planet or Plastic?)

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Brainstorm Part 2: What materials do you have at home?

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Brainstorm Part 2: What materials do you have at home?

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Gather some basic materials before you finalize your design so that you can see what you have available.

Here's some ideas:
-corks, old sponges, cut up pool noodles, nets, mesh, other fabric
-twist-ties, alligator clips, twine, string, tubes
-recycled plastic trash like cups, berry baskets, spoons, scoopers of other kinds
-specialty materials are also listed in the slideshow above! consider looking for things that will float in water and won't fall apart when wet!

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Think about how it will capture the plastic trash. Will it sweep it up? Reel it in? Scoop or snatch it?
Do you need to build moving parts (like a grabber) or will your design float in the water and capture things?

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You have a couple options here. However you test, ask yourself: "did it capture trash?", "did my design stay together or fall apart in the water?", "how can I grab more trash or different types of trash?"

1. You could test it in a bathtub, baby pool, or other tub that you fill with water. Once it's full enough, add some pieces of trash from your recycling bin and see how your design works out. This might get messy but it is maximum fun!

2. You could also test using a dry method. Simply put trash from your recycling bin out on pavement or backyard (safe space you can clean!), and then use your device to pick up the trash.

3. What else could you do to test our your design? If you do something different, comment here and let us know what you did.

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If you want to keep going and have time this week, redesign your trash collector device to make it work EVEN BETTER!

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My first design

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We are moving the pros & cons charts to our Google Drive. keep posting there or here! 

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We are moving the pros & cons charts to our Google Drive. keep posting there or here! 

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Jahans trash colector
I designed a river trash colector that is made
ispecealy made for micro plastics it has mutile
Filters so it would only let water through.👎🏼

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Jahan’s Trash Collector Prototype Photo

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My trash collected is made from a plastic fabric and I cut out the top of a yogurt tub and made that the structure. The handle is made is made from a metal barbaque scuwer and I put some tin-foil around the bottom so it did not hurt you. This trash collector is best for micro plastic but it can also be use for bigger plastic.

Here is my video!!

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i tried out a couple things and then i finally found a way !

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derby- I made a boat with a net to pick up trash out of popsicle sticks, tin foil, rocks, tape and a container.

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-Derby

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You scoop trash from water.
Its made for straws and other small plastics,it also works with general small non-plastic stuff.The hardest part to make was the filter(cup).My favorite part is the handle.I'm surprised how much weight it could hold.

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I created a floating trash collector from amazon materials. There are 2 strings: one that is attached to the bottom which flips the device and the other one is in the middle and steers and pulls it. It floats with Amazon packaging material and the body of it is from berry containers. This could be made into a bigger model but you will get the idea from the video of how it works.

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This is my prototype of a floating robot that collects plastic trash using the scoop motion. The net is from an old colander and it can scoop up small plastics like bottle caps, straws,wrappers and even microplastics because of its tiny holes.

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Laura’s Design idea:  microplastic filter from recycled materials, plants, and jellyfish idea

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Laura’s Design idea:  microplastic filter from recycled materials, plants, and jellyfish idea

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Laura’s video: demo of micro plastic filter

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Laura’s video: demo of micro plastic filter

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I made a under water trash can that floats around depending on the current .

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Laura’s micropladtic filter floating on its own because of the corks in the design

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Laura’s micropladtic filter floating on its own because of the corks in the design

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For my trash collector project I made a net out of string and for my trash I used floss that are purple so you can see them well. And I hung it from the faucet.

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For my prototype I used a rubber mat, tubing from a drip system in our backyard, duct tape, and old door knobs and washer as weights. See video for full description.

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I couldn’t add my project there so I added it here.

I used an rc boat at taped popsicle sticks and used string. The string attached to a cork / tape line to collect the trash.

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This is a machine that floats in the water and scoops up Micro-plastic.  I used a plastic onion bag, a milk carton, and an aluminum soup can.  Watch the video please!

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Margo’s R.O.B.
I made it out of a food container and some string .