plastic debris Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Wed, 27 Mar 2013 19:56:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Technology to Clean Oceans of Plastic Debris Developed by Student https://www.greenoptimistic.com/boyan-slat-clean-plastic-trash-20130326/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/boyan-slat-clean-plastic-trash-20130326/#respond Tue, 26 Mar 2013 19:25:09 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=35333 Boyan Slat, a 19-year-old Aerospace Engineering student at TU Delft designed a device that could clean the ocean from plastic trash. The concept called Ocean Cleanup Array, combines long floating booms with processing platforms,which can collect and separate trash. Plastics are one of the main ocean pollutants, adding tones of harmful chemicals every year and […]

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