On the 23rd of June last month, the Ocean Voyages Institute made history after they successfully cleaned 103 tons or 206,000 pounds of plastic garbage and fishing nets from the GYRE or the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The cleaning expedition lasted for 48 days and they set a new record […]
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The 25-Year-Old’s Dream to Clean the Great Pacific Garbage Patch Uses a Giant Device for Cleaning Plastic
When he was 19, Boyan Slat, today a successful and well-known entrepreneur, founded Ocean Cleanup, a non-profit organization whose goal is to eliminate harmful plastics from the oceans. His organization created a device twice the size of Texas to remove garbage from the Garbage Patch in the Great Pacific. The […]