Key Points for Summary of Ocean Clean Up

• A massive island made up of plastic garbage known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch was found in the Pacific Ocean in 1997.
• Inventor Boyan Slat laid out a vision of what he calls the Ocean Cleanup Machine, revealed in a TED talk six years prior to bothm skepticism and praise, to tackle the issue.
• Money and manpower has since been secured for the project.
• How it works: fifty soli, one-kilometre-long floating booms, which are attached to large floating anchors to slow the booms down relative to the currents, will act as an artificial coastline, allowing the trash to accumulate on the structures via the oceans's natural currents.
• The booms will have the garbage they have accumulated once a month. 
• Going forward, the plan is to recycle the collected garbage and have companies sponsor the booms to recoup some of the cost.

Source: Schiller, B. (2017). Boy Genius Boyan Slat’s Giant Ocean Cleanup Machine Is Real. Retrieved from https://www.fastcompany.com/40419899/boy-genius-boyan-slats-giant-ocean-cleanup-machine-is-real.