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A Texas resident will swim across the Pacific Ocean to raise awareness about plastic pollution and its detrimental effects on the marine life.
Ben Lecomte will swim from Japan to San Francisco through the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, followed by scientists collecting samples of ocean plastic and radioactive material.
The garbage patch is considered to be the size of Queensland, consisting of over 78,000 tonnes of plastic and is considered to be growing ‘exponentially.’