MANILA/HAMBURG, Germany -- Like a big fishing net, RiverRecycle's trash booms are sieving through Philippine rivers to catch plastic waste. The Finnish startup believes there will be more plastic than fish in oceans in weight terms by 2050.
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A worker uses a net to pick out plastic waste from a heavily-polluted river (Courtesy of RiverRecycle)
MANILA/HAMBURG, Germany -- Like a big fishing net, RiverRecycle's trash booms are sieving through Philippine rivers to catch plastic waste. The Finnish startup believes there will be more plastic than fish in oceans in weight terms by 2050.