Garbage ‘patch’ is much worse than believed, entrepreneur says
It is known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch — a mass of plastic floating debris estimated to be twice the size of Texas and concentrated between California and Hawaii.
But to Boyan Slat, the 21-year-old Dutch entrepreneur who is orchestrating what he envisions as the largest ocean cleanup effort in history, “patch” is far too gentle a term. He prefers “ticking time bomb.”
On Sunday, the seasick-prone Slat watched safely from on shore as the 170-foot mother ship of the 30-vessel “mega expedition” docked in San Francisco with its haul of several tons of plastic debris.
The haul ranged from tiny colored shards to toothbrushes and toy plastic army solders up in size to discarded buoys and even huge abandoned “ghost” fishing nets.
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