Recycling, packaging and waste

Wow! 19-year-old unveils plan to pull plastic from the ocean

Greg Roughan - Green Ideas editor

Tags plastic , technology

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You have to check out the website of Boyan Slat, the Dutch teen with the amazing plan for cleaning plastic from the ocean: http://www.boyanslat.com/

It's projected that his Ocean Cleanup Array could remove 7,2500,000 tons of plastic waste from the world’s oceans. The device consists of an anchored network of floating booms and processing platforms that could be dispatched to garbage patches around the world. Instead of moving through the ocean, the array would span the radius of a garbage patch, acting as a giant funnel.

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