Great pacific garbage patch cleanup5/29/2023 Slat said that before the plastic was "still escaping the system" by riding over the top of the boom. The system includes a tapered three-metre skirt to catch plastic floating just below the surface. It was towing a 600 metre (2,000-foot)-long boom device designed by Slat dubbed System 001, aimed at containing floating ocean plastic so it can be scooped up and recycled. Slat came up with the idea seven years ago, and the system has been undergoing tests for the past year The Maersk Launcher ship finally sailed from San Francisco on September 9 for trials on cleaning the patch, a floating trash pile twice the size of France that swirls in the ocean halfway between California and Hawaii. ![]() The system has been undergoing tests for the past year. It seeks to use ocean currents to gather up some of the bottles, plastic bags, flip-flops and other detritus that sully the planet's waters. Slat came up with the idea seven years ago, drawing it on a paper napkin when he was still in high school. "So we think that we can actually clean the oceans." "It's the first time actually anyone harvests plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, from this giant fishing net all the way down to the micro plastic range," he added. "Today we announce that our clean-up system in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch has been catching plastic for the first time," Boyan Slat, the 25-year-old Dutch CEO and founder of The Ocean Cleanup, told a press conference in Rotterdam. The project by The Ocean Cleanup, a Dutch non-profit group, involves a supply ship towing a floating boom that corrals marine plastic with the aim of cleaning half of the infamous patch within five years.
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