{"id":290703,"date":"2018-12-20T06:00:58","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T20:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=290703"},"modified":"2018-12-20T06:00:58","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T20:00:58","slug":"huge-barrier-isnt-trapping-plastic-waste-in-pacific-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/huge-barrier-isnt-trapping-plastic-waste-in-pacific-ocean\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge barrier isn\u2019t trapping plastic waste in Pacific Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LOS ANGELES <\/strong>(AP) \u2014 A floating device sent to corral a swirling island of trash between California and Hawaii has not swept up any plastic waste \u2014 but the young innovator behind the project said Monday that a fix was in the works.<\/p>\n<p>Boyan Slat, 24, who launched the Pacific Ocean cleanup project, said the speed of the solar-powered barrier isn\u2019t allowing it to hold on to the plastic it catches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes the system actually moves slightly slower than the plastic, which of course you don\u2019t want because then you have a chance of losing the plastic again,\u201d Slat said in an interview with The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>A crew of engineers will reach the U-shaped boom Tuesday and will work for the next few weeks to widen its span so that it catches more wind and waves to help it go faster, he said.<\/p>\n<p>A ship towed the 2,000-foot-long (600-meter-long) barrier in September from San Francisco to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 A floating device sent to corral a swirling island of trash&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[892],"class_list":["post-290703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-pacific-ocean"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}