The 7 Year Dream: Dutch teenager invents world first ocean plastic cleanup system, a floating barrier nearly 2,000ft long to reduce Great Pacific Garbage Patch by half by 2025
2021-11-10
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A Dutch Teenager Had a Dream to Clean Up the World’s Oceans. 7 Years On, It’s Coming True
For someone who gets violently seasick, Boyan Slat spends a lot of time thinking about the ocean. The Dutch inventor has designed the world’s first ocean plastic cleanup system but admits he won’t be on the ship with it when it launches out of San Francisco on Saturday.