One young man saw the problem early in his life. Boyan Slat, at the age of 18, gave a riveting Ted Talk unveiling his plan to clean the pollution using passive flotation devices and the ocean's own current.
The currents pull the sea life under the floatation devices but the lighter-than-water plastics float into the barriers. What would have taken humanity 70,000 years to clean with boats and nets can be cleaned, instead, in decades.
Saturday, May 30, 2015
Ocean Cleaning
minds.com: The world's first ocean cleaning system will be deployed in 2016
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Sadly, the next generations job will be to clean up the awful mess we've created the last 300 yrs. It brought tears of joy to my eyes watching this video. The clean up is underway, they get it. The age of using fossil carbon and its waste must also end or this young man's job will never end. Of course I couldn't ever get my kids to clean up there own rooms so its not going to be an easy job.
Remarkable invention and it comes with a lot of good merit. Hopefully there is a reversal and our oceans get healthier.
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