Trial on North Sea to clean up plastic soup

30 June 2016

At the presentation of Boyan Slat’s invention, Dutch state secretary Dijksma (Infrastructure and the Environment) reiterated her support for his project aimed at cleaning up the plastic soup in the world’s oceans. The first tests will be conducted on the North Sea this coming year. Boyan Slat (founder of The Ocean Cleanup) revealed the trial system in Scheveningen. The next step is the first functional plastic clean-up system some 2 kilometres long, which will probably be placed off the Japanese coast in the second half of 2017. Starting in 2020, a system that is 100 kilometres long is planned between Hawaii and California (News Item Government of the Netherlands, 23 June 2016).
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