The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is one of the biggest environmental disasters of our time. But luckily some great minds are trying to clean it and reverse something thought to be irreversible. The Ocean Cleanup Project is led by Boyan Slat, a young entrepreneur, who together with his organization developed a tool that helps remove plastic from oceans in a more efficient way.
The organization was born 6 years ago, and its main mission was to clean the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, that in the meantime grow, becoming two times larger than Texas. If broken down to pieces, it is said that the Patch contains around 250 pieces of plastic for each person on Earth. This truly is a very alarming fact!
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The Ocean Cleanup Project first launched its revolutionary device in 2018 and it was a 2,000-foot-long U-shaped array, named “Wilson”. But unfortunately, its first attempt has been unsuccessful as shortly after powering it the device started throwing back plastic into the ocean and broke down. So, the organization had no other option, then to return “Wilson” to the port of San Francisco, to its starting point.
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Boyan did not give up, and last summer he announced that they are ready to launch a new and improved device, that uses underwater parachutes to have better control over the movement of “Wilson”. This entire process of removing plastic from waters is a very hard one, as several years of research need to be done in advance before creating a functional and efficient clean-up device. Environmentalists all around the world are hoping that this new tool is going to work the way it was meant to and that we might just be getting one step closer to having plastic-free oceans.
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