A 19 year old aerospace engineering student at the Delft University of Technology, Boyan Slat has introduced a plan to clean the oceanic wastes from the surface of sea, this project is known the Ocean Cleanup Array.
Boyan Slat said, "it is a project to clean one-third of the total ocean surface plastic pollution or about 7,250,000,000 kilogrammes."This project could reduce the death rate of aquatic animals and also help out to reduce oceanic pollutants like PCB and DDT.
He posted in his website.“Plastic pollution costs governments, companies and individuals millions of dollars in damages per year, due to loss in tourism, vessel damages and (inefficient) beach clean-ups.”
Ocean Cleanup Array would have platform with booms to collect plastic waste due to the gyre current and by the flow of water wastes come to the platform then the trasher will recycle it.He said booms is better than nets because it covers a wider area and will save auqutic animals from catch.
The platforms would be stationary, will be self-supporting because of harnessing solar energy or currents.“According to current estimations – due to the plan’s unprecedented efficiency – recycling benefits would significantly outweigh the costs of executing the project,” Slat describes.The concept has the ability to remove 7,250,000,000 kg of world’s oceans plastic in just five years.This forcast is based on Ocean Surface Current Simulator (OSCURS) data.
This project is still under construction.If we want succee in this project we need to rise the importance of recycling, and reducing our consumption of plastic packaging,” said Slat.
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