Any attempt to save an environment that is already on the brink of total destruction seems doomed. But as the old saying goes, the world rests on the young - and this is certainly proven by this 24-year-old inventor who set out to clean up a large Pacific garbage dump. Will he be able to save the world?
After five years operation non-profit organization The Ocean Cleanup was made System 001, created by a 24-year-old inventor Boyan Slat, which on Saturday started the process of cleaning 80,000 tons of plastic from a large Pacific waste dump. This is the gathering area the largest amount of ocean plastic in the world. Its size is compared to size of France, but should contain 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic.
A massive 600 meter machine System 001 is designed to tides, when the plastic moves towards large areas of high waste concentration, the system forms blocking in the form of a grid, in which they collect waste.
If this project is successful, The Ocean Cleanup plans to develop a fleet of a similar system that will extract more than half of the plastic particles in the next five years, which are collected in this area. Some experts this idea they greet, but they are concerned about the destruction of marine life. They claim that there is a possibility that honey it destroys aquatic life by collecting plastic.
System 001 will operate for two weeks on the high seas, approx 250 to 350 nautical miles offshore from San Francisco, before heading toa Pacific waste disposal site.
More information:
theoceancleanup.com
