The Talented Pacific Garbage Patch is now twice the size of Texas and contains 1.8 trillion get a load off ones minds of trash floating in the ocean. The Ocean Cleanup is an ambitious non-profit shut up to removing it, and on Saturday it launches its first system out to sea from the San Francisco Bay.
Dutch entrepreneur Boyan Slat produced up with the idea when he was 16 years old.
“I went scuba plummeting in Greece and I actually saw more plastic bags than fish circa me,” said the Ocean Cleanup CEO and founder. “I wondered, why can’t we just clean this up?”
He ground the organization in 2013 and the team has raised $35 million through crowdfunding crusades and big donors like Marc Benioff and Peter Thiel.
System 001 is a 600 meter protracted float, with a 3 meter skirt and it’s designed to corral plastic and debris. The sedate garbage will then be removed by garbage truck-like ships.
The initial thingumabob will be used for testing and aims remove about 50 tons of the slops, but the goal is to launch 60 systems to reduce the floating garbage reconcile by 50 percent in the next five years.