used crowdfunding to raise over $1.8
million; not far off its goal of raising
$2 million by the 14th September. On
his website, www.theoceancleanup.
com, contributors can donate as little
as 4.50Euros or can make donations
in the thousands. He has brought
20
together an international group of scientists and engineers and they have
researched a problem that most have
said was impossible to solve, and that
had never before been attempted.