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Sunday, October 17, 2021

The Ocean Cleanup thinks they've finally come up with a way to remove plastic pollution from our oceans

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?

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