The Ocean Cleanup
#MoveTheDate Solutions
Personal / Community: Community project
Nature sub-categories: Pollution remediation or prevention
Description: The Ocean Cleanup is a non-government engineering environmental organization that develops technology to extract plastic pollution from the oceans. After a couple of years of various tests they deployed their second prototype in June 2019. It was founded in 2013 by Boyan Slat, a Dutch-born inventor-entrepreneur who serves as its CEO. It has conducted two expeditions to the North Pacific Gyre, and published scientific papers. The clean-up approach uses barriers in ocean gyres to scoop up marine debris as the barrier is pushed by wind and current. The project aims to launch a total of 60 such systems in the patch by 2021. They predict this capability could clean up 50% of the debris in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in five years.
Website about this solution: https://theoceancleanup.com
Video about this solution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1EAeNdTFHU
Why I love this solution: Plastic pollution of oceans is the most imminent threat to the marine ecosystems that we all depend on. Finally a project that truly aims at effective action to remediate this threat.