The Ocean Cleanup is a nonprofit environmental engineering organization based in the Netherlands that develops technology to extract plastic pollution from the oceans and to capture it in rivers before it can reach the ocean. After years of development, both systems are operational and scaling to address more sites, in the Pacific Ocean, and in countries including Indonesia and the United States. It was founded in 2013 by Boyan Slat, a Dutch-born inventor-entrepreneur of Croatian and Dutch origin who serves as its CEO. It publishes scientific papers. Their ocean system consists of a floating barrier at the surface of the water deployed in oceanic gyres to collect marine debris. The system is pushed by wind, waves and current, and slowed by an anchor. The project aims to launch 60 such systems, which they predict could remove 50% of the debris in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch five years from deployment. More information...
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