19-year-old presents solution for Pacific ocean garbage patch (video)

This idea was not new! He's being used for some green propaganda.

Maybe so, however, it is worth implementing the idea if indeed it does work.

[link to www.theoceancleanup.com]

Ever since the plastic pollution problem gained widespread attention at the beginning of this century, there have been many ideas for cleaning it up. But these all involved vessels and nets that would ‘fish’ for plastic. Not only would by-catch and emissions likely cancel out the good work, but also, due to the vastness of areas in which the plastics concentrate, such an operation would cost many billions of dollars, and thousands of years to complete.

In 2012, Boyan Slat —then 17 years old— proposed a passive concept that could overcome these challenges.

The Basic Principles
Passive collection
Capturing plastics, not sea life
Highly scalable

subject says garbage but its plastic that he is trying to clean up.

If it was garbage I had a thought on this issue. When I was in military (Navy) 20 years ago depending on how far out we were...we had trash call where you throw paper bags of trash over the side of the ship. However, No plastic was allowed in those bags.

So you would be in favor of not cleaning up the mess?

Build a recovery ship, the Norwegians are experts and world leaders in special shipdesigns, trawlers and offshore technology.

Equip it with a processing facility to hydrolyse the waste into liquid fuels, and have a tanker come and empty her tanks and deliver it to a refinery as needed.

Problem solved, money made.

No, but this thing, like many other initiatives, are just to make you feel good. None of them are practical on this scale. Prevention is what should be focussed on. When your sink is overflowing, do you just mop up the overflowing water, or do you turn off the faucet?

this may not be related to this post entirely , but the international space station , has been noticing a peculiar development , in that plankton, yes plankton from the ocean has been found on the windows of the craft, i wonder if fukushima and the radiation may be responsible .