The “Ocean Cleanup” Device Is Finally Hauling In Huge Bags Of Plastic Garbage By Manuel García Aguilar for Natural Blaze
GNN Note – Somebody tell Greta to pipe-down – and tell her to quit fusing and get busy! You know, go to China, Africa and India and tell them “how dare you!” where the oceans pollution is originating.
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In 2013, 18-year-old Dutch inventor Boyan Slat founded The Ocean Cleanup in his hometown in the Netherlands to develop a system to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, also described as the Pacific trash vortex. The patch is an immense concentration of garbage in the north-central Pacific Ocean that is more than twice the size of Texas.
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Now, six years later, the fruits of this multidisciplinary work are starting to pay off.
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is sometimes referred to as an island made of garbage floating in the middle of the Pacific, but is that really true? While technically not actually a solid island, it looks just like one at first glance.
It turns out, the plastic is dispersed, forming massive debris fields. The average concentration of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is around 60 kg per square kilometer as said by Nature, and peaks at several hundred kgs per square kilometer.
In 2013, The Ocean Cleanup debuted a U-shaped device that passively collects plastic in its fold like a giant arm. At first, the system hit several snags, including a flaw that caused the plastic to spill back into the ocean. Several improvements were needed.
But in October of this year, the group announced that the device was finally capturing and retaining plastic. And for the first time, some of the trash was brought back to shore. The group hauled 60 bags of plastic debris into the Vancouver Harbour.
“We actually have the first plastic back on land,” Slat said at a press conference.
“It’s absolute garbage,” Slat said.“This stuff has been in the ocean likely for decades.”
