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。
It will be the first ever attempt to tackle the patch since it was discovered in 1997.
这将是自1997年发现该垃圾带以来首次尝试对它进行处理。
The experts believe the machine should be able to collect half of the detritus in the patch – about 40,000 metric tons – within five years.
专家们认为,这种机器应该能在5年内收集垃圾带中一半的碎片,总重量约4万吨。
In the past few weeks they have been busy welding together giant tubes that will sit on the surface of the sea and form the skeleton of the machine, creating the largest floating barrier ever made.
在过去几周里,他们一直在忙着将巨大的管子焊接在一起。这些管子将被放置在海面上,构成机器的主体,也成为有史以来人类制造的最大的漂浮屏障。
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