People seem really excited about the upcoming deployment about a new system created to clean up the ocean’s floating plastic. Judging from the headlines, that’s in large part because it was invented by a child, now a 20-year-old man named Boyan Slat, who crowdfunded the effort and got a team of 100 scientists, engineers and designers to help him bring it to fruition. It’s also jut a cool-looking, potential solution to a major problem that we hear about a lot, but are sort of helpless to counteract: we’re dumping an estimated 8 million tonsof plastic into the oceans every year.
Source: salon.com