Tuesday 11 November 2014

Meet Boyan Slat

I always wondered about the mess our generation is leaving behind on this planet and if future generations will be able to stop and change our mistakes. Well it looks like they just might.

 19 year old Boyan Slat a high school student from Delft, Holland for his final thesis spent six months figuring out how to rid the ocean of its plastic pollution. The aspiring engineer has figured it out and with 1,500 e-mail a day of support and funds collected in the first month of $1.46 million...that is a good start. Boyan figured why move through the ocean when the ocean can move through you. Slat`s ocean cleanup system of floating arms harnesses the seas natural current, guiding  plastic trash to a solar sorting platform.....it actually does work. Read more at theoceancleanup.com.....George

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