Plastic pollution in the oceans is a monumental problem. Here's a story about one young man's efforts to clean it up - Boyan Slat, now 27, and the founder of The Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit organization, has been working on this since he was 19.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/half-mile-installation-just-took-124200162.html
Photo Credit: The Ocean Cleanup
However,...
At current plastic dumping rates of 11 million metric tons per year, it would take a fleet of over 5,500 such devices to collect it. For perspective, the U.S. Navy has less than 500 ships.
Is this a realistic goal? Will it ever happen? What do you think?
