Organisers behind the event claim 50,000 bottles worth of waste have been removed from the ocean in 24 hours – as part of World Ocean Day
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What’s claimed to be the world’s first clean-up of the seven seas has taken place – with Cornish divers kick starting the programme in the North Atlantic.
It’s past of the ‘100 Year Clean Up’, which is an effort to fund the cleaning of the planet’s plastic waste, with the goal of removing 1 billion plastic bottles by 2030.
Six divers from the UK took part in the global underwater clean up in Mullion Cove yesterday morning (June 8) to mark World Oceans Day.
Part of a 40-strong crew of divers around the world, alongside a tribe of volunteer ocean lovers, they went to depths of 15+ meters across 7 time zones to collect 50,000 plastic bottles worth of waste in the space of a day.
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