20-Year-Old Inventor’s Idea For How To Make The Ocean Clean

1. This 2,000m floating line will become the longest floating structure in the world when it’s deployed in 2016

2. It is the first stage in 20-year-old Boyan Slat’s plan to rid the oceans of floating plastic waste

3. This plan involves targeting rotating ocean currents full of waste and skimming the trash from them

4. His goal is to eventually build a 100km floating array that could collect 70,320,000kg of plastic waste over 10 years

5. Slat estimates that this method would cost roughly 4.53 euros (5.04 USD) per kilogram, which is only 3% of the cost of other potential clean-up methods

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