Goal is to scale up and run a fleet of plastic-plucking systems
An environmental group dedicated to removing plastic from rivers and oceans recently hit a milestone by hauling more than 100,000 kilograms of plastic out of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
“We are just getting started here but [it is] very exciting to now set our sights to the next milestone of a million kilos of plastic from the ocean,” founder and chief executive Boyan Slat said in a video accompanying the announcement. The new iteration will be able to collect more garbage at a lower cost per kilogram on an ongoing basis, it said.Slat established the organization in 2013 out of concern about the impact of plastic on marine life, which can die as a result of becoming trapped in plastic or eating it, since plastics break down into microsizes that work through the food chain.
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