d.w. zocalo naslund is here for a deep dive into what they called the biggest clean up in history. let's i was dive deep in the project is called the ocean clean up it was started 7 years ago by a 25 year old dutchman boy and slot finally 7 years later the team announced this week that they were the 1st to successfully harvest plastic from the great pacific garbage patch here's a look at some of the plastic that they hauled out of the ocean you can see all kinds of stuff in there large and small bits of plastic there also fishing nets even car tires and these bullies. pieces as well that are often mistaken for food by fish and other sea animals are the device itself and you can see it's very impressive it's 600 metres long it floats on top of the ocean it uses the movement of the water collects and then filter out the plastic debris it will send a low its location to a ship which then comes to collect the plastic when it's ready and it also works below the surface of the water as well you can see it allows fish to swim underneath it while it's filtering out plastic from the water t