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- Commenting on the launch of the technology, Boyan Slat said: “Today’s launch is an important milestone, but the real celebration will come once the first plastic returns to shore. For 60 years, mankind has been putting plastic into the oceans; from that day onwards, we’re taking it back out again.”
If the current trials prove successful, the group hopes to put a fleet of around 60 systems in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which it claims would be able to clear up around 50 per cent of the waste within five years.
I have been following this for some time now and I love it. Their goal I think is to sell the collected waste to companies who can use it to manufacture Ocean Cleanup-branded goods. Definitely some holes in the project but I love that this guy is giving it a shot.