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posted by martyb on Sunday May 31 2015, @05:11AM   Printer-friendly
from the cleaning-up-big dept.

Boyan Slat, 20-year old founder and CEO of The Ocean Cleanup, today announced that the world's first system to passively clean up plastic pollution from the world's oceans is to be deployed in 2016. He made the announcement at Asia's largest technology conference, Seoul Digital Forum, in South-Korea.

The array is projected to be deployed in Q2 2016. The feasibility of deployment, off the coast of Tsushima, an island located in the waters between Japan and South-Korea is currently being researched.

The scale of the plastic pollution problem, whereby in the case of Tsushima island, approximately one cubic meter of pollution per person is washed up each year, has led the Japanese [and] the local government to seek innovative solutions to the problem.


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  • (Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Sunday May 31 2015, @07:41PM

    by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Sunday May 31 2015, @07:41PM (#190470) Homepage Journal

    I'm glad there are still people in the world that think about practical problems and are willing to act on this grand scale.

    A first step in cleaning up the Pacific Ocean; yes, yes, yes!

    -- hendrik

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