Boyan slat unveils ocean Cleanup plan to remove plastic from gyres

Young Dutchman to test ambitious ocean cleanup project

The Ocean Cleanup's floating structures use currents to clean the world's oceans. Image courtesy of The Ocean Cleanup.

An ambitious project has been launched which aims to cleanup large amounts of plastic pollution from the world’s oceans.

Lead by Dutchman Boyan Slat, the project envisages the use of huge floating structures to trawl plastic waste from the ocean. The idea behind this method was first developed by Boyan Slat in his final year of high school for a class project. He then went on to do further research into the feasibility of…

Young Dutchman to test ambitious ocean cleanup project

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