The Ocean Cleanup

Boyan Slat, founder and CEO of The Ocean Cleanup: “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.
WORLD’S FIRST OCEAN CLEANING SYSTEM TO BE DEPLOYED IN 2016: The Ocean Cleanup, developing technologies to extract, prevent and intercept plastic pollution

I think it’s an amazing idea. I hope it works as well as they think it will.

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Thank you, O/LP

Seems like a good idea. Last I heard there was a 1 square mile of plastic flaring in the ocean. Probably has grown some.

Each time we buy a plastic water bottle or soft drink, unless the bottle is recycled, it ends up in landfill. Cruise ships are known to just dump stuff onto the ocean - so I hear.

The 3 R's
Reduce
Reuse
Recycle

Throw in Rebalance if you must.

Can we have O/LP as our Environmental Manager please? All positive votes counted in form of "Like" for O/LP post.

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The seas and oceans are the guarantors of life on earth and we are creating pollution in the oceans by throwing garbage into oceans as plastic waste and nuclear waste also thrown into oceans by many countries which create environmental pollution and become a major reason for climate change.

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It is good there is some initiative being taken to do something. It is disappointing how apathetic people are to the destruction of the environment that they cannot even do the simplest things to avoid it, like throwing away their garbage where it belongs.