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Boyan Slat is an engineering student who is designing a concept for floating booms that would sift debris from the water.
Boyan Slat is a 19-year-old engineering student who has detailed plans for a concept Ocean Cleanup system that could help remove over 7 million tons of plastic from the water. The design would clean up the large ‘Garbage Patches’ using floating booms rather than nets to cover wide areas.
By not using nets or mesh, the result will be that small debris will be diverted and extracted with virtually no by-catch of fish or other living organisms. The ocean currents would drive plastic toward the self-supportive Ocean Cleanup platforms, powered by the sun, currents, and waves.
They estimate that by selling the plastic retrieved from the gyres, they would be able to make more money than the plan costs to execute.
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- Reducing Plastic Pollution in Our Oceans Is Simpler Than You Thinkon May 25, 2023 at 2:00 am
Anyone can read what you share. By Boyan Slat Mr. Slat is the founder and chief executive of the Ocean Cleanup. The world is finally getting serious about plastic pollution. Next week, delegates ...
- Plastics to the rescue in cleanup of the Great Pacific Garbage Patchon May 23, 2023 at 5:00 pm
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- 77 tons less trash made it into the ocean thanks to this experimental LA County deviceon May 16, 2023 at 2:55 pm
founder and chief executive of the Ocean Cleanup. The Dutch nonprofit partnered with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Works to introduce the interceptor in October. The system floats a ...
- 77 tons less trash made it into the ocean thanks to this experimental LA County deviceon May 16, 2023 at 2:34 pm
The system floats a few hundred yards from the ... in the coming weeks. Ocean Cleanup is not being compensated for the project; the Department of Public Works has staffed the trash interceptor ...
- Ocean Cleanup looks to halt flow of plastic trash from Indonesian riveron May 12, 2023 at 8:28 am
The Ocean Cleanup is possibly best known for deploying ... Essentially a solar-powered barge that's home to a conveyor system and a number of garbage bins, the vessel reaches out into the flowing ...
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- Procter & Gamble launches Fairy Ocean Plastic bottle made with 100% recycled plasticon May 29, 2023 at 5:00 pm
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- Reducing Plastic Pollution in Our Oceans Is Simpler Than You Thinkon May 25, 2023 at 2:00 am
Anyone can read what you share. By Boyan Slat Mr. Slat is the founder and chief executive of the Ocean Cleanup. The world is finally getting serious about plastic pollution. Next week, delegates ...
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