Young genius’ about to start world’s largest ocean cleanup

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In september launches the largest endeavor to help rid our oceans of 5 trillion pieces of plastic, lead by the dutch 24 years old inventor Boyan Slat.

Aged 16, when diving in greece, Boyan saw more plastic than fish in the sea.
Ever since, he has dedicated his life to the ocean cleanup.
Ocean currents concentrate plastic in five areas in the world: a.k.a. the world’s "Ocean Garbage Patches".

The Ocean Clean Up aims to rid our oceans of plastic, starting with the largest garbage patch, located between Hawaii and California.
Which is estimated to contain 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic.
Here, the Ocean Clean Up will deploy its first technological solution to this growing problem.
The Ocean Clean Up system creates a coastline where there are none.
This artificial coastline captures the plastic after which the plastic gets taken out.

The system consists of a 600-meter-long floater that sits at the surface of the water…
And a tapered 3-meter-deep skirt attached below.
The floater provides buoyancy to the system and prevents plastic from flowing over it, while the skirt stops debris from escaping underneath.

As the impenetrable skirt creates a downward flow, marine life can safely pass beneath it.


Here’s how the system captures the plastic using only natural oceanic forces.
Because of wind and waves, the system moves faster than the plastic, allowing the plastic to be captured.
Thanks to the shape of the skirt and the currents, the system naturally adopts in a U-shape.
As it’s free floating, it automatically drifts to the areas with the highest plastic concentration and it’s fitted with solar powered lights, anti-collision systems, cameras, sensors and satellite antennas.

The system actively communicates its position at all times and continuously gathers performance data.
Periodically a support vessel comes by to take out the concentrated plastic, like a garbage truck of the ocean.

The plastic is then transported to land, recycled and made into durable products.
It is absolutely vital to clean up the large debris as soon as possible.
The total mass of the pacific garbage patch is 80,000 tons.
We see that about 92% isn’t micro plastic, but it’s large.

Those 8% of plastic that are already microplastics, they used to be large objects as well.

But because of uv lights it breaks down into these smaller and smaller pieces, becoming harder to clean up.
That’s why it’s so important the we are cleaning up the garbage patch.

Their models indicate that a full-scale system roll-out could clean up 50% of the great pacific garbage patch in 5 years.
Combining the cleanup with source reduction on land paves the road towards a plastic free ocean by 2050.

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Follow the launch on september 8 2018 of the first deployment live on
theoceancleanup.com

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