The Ocean Clean-up launches Sept 8!

[Catherine]

We may someday mark this day as a world holiday. The Ocean Clean-up will be launched Sept 8, 2018. The Ocean Clean-up is the idea of Boyan Slat, a young man with large ideas. He has come up with an idea to clean up the great Pacific Garbage Patch. 
The technology is simple and "powered" by ocean currents. The system will trap garbage and then we can remove it for recycling. 

https://mymodernmet.com/boyan-slat-ocean...up-launch/


It is the simplicity and basic structure of The Ocean Clean-up that will enable it to work.
We will need more than one. Certainly we have to tackle the other garbage patches. It will take time to work. Other systems will be needed to clean beaches and shallow waters. It is however a major step in cleaning up the oceans.  

So Sept 8 should be known as Ocean Clean-up day, the day we stopped talking about the problem of ocean garbage patches filled with plastics and actually started to clean them up.

The kid is a genius. I hope he comes up with other great ideas to save the planet. There better be some kind of Nobel Prize in his future.