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  "textContent": "BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Most ocean cleanup efforts work on the same assumption: the problem floats. Skim the surface, collect the plastic, done. The trouble is that most marine litter doesn’t float. It sinks to the seabed, where it sits undisturbed and largely out of reach of the methods designed to catch it. […]\n\nThe post How robots and drones are cleaning the ocean floor across Europe first appeared on The Optimist Daily: Making Solutions the News.",
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