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Old 06-29-2010, 09:37 PM
 
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LONDON (Reuters Life!) - While images of brown streaks of drifting crude oil, beached tar balls and petroleum-stained pelicans are now conjured with any mention of ocean pollution, one firm is gathering bits of floating plastic to build vacuum cleaners.

Electrolux to Make Vacuums From Plastic Ocean Trash - ABC News
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Old 07-13-2014, 09:05 PM
 
Location: Volcano
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All the best wishes to Electrolux for taking something on to try to bring attention to the problem, but I'm afraid all their vavuum cleaners in the whole world couldn't make a dent in "hoovering" up the amount of plastic waste presently in the ocean.
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Old 07-19-2014, 09:32 PM
 
Location: Lebanon, OH
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I bet those vacuum cleaners will suck. [/badpun]

But seriously I am glad something useful can be done with all that plastic.
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