The Ocean Cleanup’s revolutionary machine, which aims to collect some 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic trash, is ready to take its first voyage
by: Edsel Cook
NaturalNews.com
Thursday, May 24, 2018
In Alameda, California, workers of the nonprofit group The Ocean Cleanup are assembling the components of a massive machine that will collect plastic trash from the ocean. An article on Fast Company states that the device will be towed to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch during the summer of 2018.
The revolutionary machine is the brainchild of Boyan Slat. He came up with the idea in 2012 after hearing it would take nearly 80,000 years to clean up 1.8 trillion pieces of ocean plastics.
Gathering plastic trash with nets was considered futile since there was so much of the garbage spread through the water. Furthermore, the plastics are always in motion due to the action of ocean currents. (Related: EU sets a 70 percent recycling target for waste by 2020, starts by designing a modified bacteria that lives off plastic.)
The 18 year-old Slat suggested working with the currents instead of against them. Setting up barrier in the water would speed up plastic collection, making it easy to pull them out of the water for recycling.
While experts scoffed at him, Slat dropped out of university and founded The Ocean Cleanup. The organization raised millions to create the technology for his plastic collector.
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