great pacific garbage patch Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Wed, 03 Jun 2015 04:28:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Ocean Cleanup: World’s Largest Floating Structure to Launch Next Year https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ocean-cleanup-launch/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ocean-cleanup-launch/#respond Wed, 03 Jun 2015 04:28:41 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=55088 As a teenager, Boyan Slat read about the giant plastic islands floating in the worlds oceans. Six years later his foundation is about to launch the longest floating structure in the world, designed to rid the world’s oceans of plastic pollutants. Touted to be the largest cleanup in history, Slat’s foundation The Ocean Cleanup will place a 6500 feet […]

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