19 Year old inventor Boyan Slat has come up with a way to clean up the worlds oceans. Sounds great, right? It gets even better. It would take less than five years.
A series of floating platforms and booms would float through the water and they would suck in the floating garbage like a giant funnel. It's solar powered, and there would also be a processing platform that would separate recyclable material from the lifeforms like plankton that made their way into the funnel. Slat says that he thinks a lot of people under estimate the severity of ocean pollution because it's hard to see- the oceans are very vast and the garbage is not concentrated in one area.
The idea came to Slat in school, and he wrote a paper on it attracting the attention of several marine biologists and winning a variety of awards including Best Technical Design of 2012.
With the help of others who believe in his idea, he has founded The Ocean Cleanup Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to raise funds and make his system operational as soon as they can.
His idea is not only self-maintained, but it's estimated to make a profit of approximately 500,000,000$ U.S. per year in recycling fees.
Chelsea Totten
Talk Pretty To Me
Photos courtesy of Boyan Slat.
- Monday, April 27, 2015
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