Around 10,000 tons of plastic waste have now been fished out of the world’s seas and rivers, The Ocean Cleanup project reported in the Rotterdam in the Netherlands on Monday. The Ocean Cleanup has been using huge nets to clean up the waste in the Pacific Ocean for five years. More recently it has been using barriers on badly polluted rivers in eight countries, with the aim of preventing the waste reaching the sea. “While we still have a long way to go, our recent successes fill us with renewed confidence that the oceans can be cleaned,” project initiator Boyan Slat said. Many years of trial an…