Today is your day Boomer! You know many people don't watch the news anymore because it is constantly filled with "bad news": fires, hurricanes, murders, war, racist crimes, and idiot politicians to name a few. But there is a silver lining in this dark cloud: a non-profit Dutch company is scraping the Pacific Ocean for floating plastic garbage! The Ocean Cleanup project has been on a six-week run to acquire plastics in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, about 2000km off the coast of California.....see picture. According to a spokesman, an area "the size of one football field is cleaned every 10 seconds. The retention bag is emptied every three days of between 10 to 15 tonnes of garbage." So far, they have removed over 55 tons of plastic waste with plans to do other areas like at the mouths of rivers in Guatemala, Jamaica, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Dominican Republic, Vietnam and California. By the way, one of the workers is Baby Boomer Flemming Anderson who says "I am happy about this because I am an old guy. I can do something about the legacy to my grandchildren, so that's actually why I am doing it. I am happy and proud of that." Way to go Boomer. Keep up the good global work and thank you so much for the "good news". Cheers!

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