20-Year-Old Inventor’s Idea For How To Make The Ocean Clean
Nathan Johnson
Published
06/04/2015
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This 2,000m floating line will become the longest floating structure in the world when it’s deployed in 2016 -
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It is the first stage in 20-year-old Boyan Slat’s plan to rid the oceans of floating plastic waste -
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This plan involves targeting rotating ocean currents full of waste and skimming the trash from them -
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His goal is to eventually build a 100km floating array that could collect 70,320,000kg of plastic waste over 10 years -
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Slat estimates that this method would cost roughly 4.53 euros (5.04 USD) per kilogram, which is only 3% of the cost of other potential clean-up methods -
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