The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
“Taking care of the world’s ocean garbage problem is one of the largest environmental challenges mankind faces today. Not only will this first cleanup array contribute to cleaner waters and coasts but it simultaneously is an essential step towards our goal of cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This deployment will enable us to study the system’s efficiency and durability over time,” Boyan Slat
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch consists of 2 masses of swirling garbage islands, One between Hawaii and California and one near Japan. Plastics and other non-biodegradable materials that are thrown into the world’s oceans are swept there by ocean currents and continue to collect and grow posing an ever-growing danger to marine life.
The ocean can never dissolve the garbage only making it more dangerous by breaking it down to small particles of plastic known as micro plastics which can over time collect in marine animals and bird life eventually killing them. Over 100,000 mammals and over 1,000,000 sea birds die to this micro plastics each year.
Next year, The Ocean Cleanup company, founded by Slat will be deploying the world’s first ever stem to passively can the Earth’s ocean on a large scale. This machine was first generated as an idea when he went on a diving trip in Greece seeing more plastic that marine life. The machine will use the ocean’s natural currents to direct the debris together when it can then be collected into solid floating barriers and be recycled.
The ocean cleaning machine will span 2000m and will be launched off the coast of Japan’s Tsushima island next year starting the world’s biggest ocean cleanup.
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