EcoWatch: Last June, an intrepid teenaged environmentalist made headlines after developing The Ocean Cleanup, described as the worlds first feasible concept to clean the oceans of plastic.
Boyan Slat, a Dutch former aerospace engineering student, said his plastic-capturing concept can clean half the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in a decade. The project was inspired after the young man took a diving trip in Greece in 2011 and saw more plastic in the water than fish.
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