Dutch Inventor Unveils Device to Clean Pacific Ocean of Plastic Waste
Such a machine currently costs about 700,000 euros.
A young Dutch inventor has unveiled a floating device for catching waste from rivers, with the aim of eventually cleaning plastic from the Pacific Ocean. This is according to AP News.
25-year-old Boyan Slat founded The Ocean Cleanup when he was just 18. Since then, he has been developing devices and systems that catch plastic waste floating in the ocean. The new machine, which the inventor unveiled on Saturday, October 26, runs on solar panels and scoops plastic out of rivers.
Experts estimate that 9 million tons of plastic waste are in the world's oceans, and this number keeps growing, threatening marine life, including whales. Slat said that three such machines are already working in Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam, and a fourth is heading to the Dominican Republic.
The developer is confident that a thousand rivers are responsible for 80% of the plastic polluting the world's oceans, and he wants to clean each of them within the next 5 years.
At present, such a machine costs about 700,000 euros, but the cost will fall as production increases.
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