A 20-year-old Dutch man has invented an enormous machine that can help the ocean “clean itself”.

Boyan Slat plans to create enormous floating barriers in tidal locations around the globe to capture some of the eight MILLION tons of plastic that are dumped in oceans each year.

He’s created a non-profit organisation called Ocean Cleanup to build the barriers, which will be launched from 2016.
The storm-resistant floating booms collect rubbish for easy disposal – without harming wildlife below.

The first one – which at 1,981 metres will be the longest floating structure ever put in the ocean – will be deployed near the Japanese Island of Tsushima.
In August, the non-profit organization will also send a load of boats to the area between Hawaii and California in order to make a high resolution map of all of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch – an enormous island of rubbish. (UK Mirror)
By Olivia Solon