Source: Neatorama
In 2011, then 16-year-old Dutch boy named Boyan Slat came across more plastic than fish during a diving trip to Greece. This led to a high school science project and then to an invention that may help rid the ocean of floating plastic debris.
Slat dropped out of college and founded The Ocean Cleanup, which champions the use of a floating tube that passively collects plastic:
Actively going after plastic with vessels and nets would be costly, labor intensive, harmful for sea life and would take very long.
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is an area twice the size of Texas, and although the density of plastic is higher than outside the…
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