plastic into collection
areas. This plastic can
then be sold for reuse
– offsetting the cost of
the project. Efficient,
eco-friendly and costeffective: Boyan Slat’s
ideas may be crucial
to an environmentally sound future.
He
and his group recently
published a 530-page
report on the feasibility
of the project, and have
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been able to respond to
its detractors and critics with detailed results
and computer models
of his ground breaking
concept that conclude:
this is feasible.
We caught Boyan for
an interview in the middle of his busy schedule.
Photo credit:The Ocean Cleanup
huge static
platforms
in strategic places
within the
gyres with
solid floating barriers
or “booms”
that
will
deflect the
flow of the
water and
divert the