THE OCEAN CLEANUP
Can 90 % of floating ocean plastic pollution be cleaned up by 2040? That is the mission of The Ocean Cleanup, which is currently focusing on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an accumulation zone with over 100,000,000 kilograms of floating plastic.
Founded in 2013 by 18-year-old Dutch inventor Boyan Slat, the nonprofit foundation is developing and scaling solutions to rid the world’ s oceans of plastic – both to halt the flow of trash from rivers and to remove legacy plastics from the seas. sustainabilitymag. com 19