Boyan Slat

The Ocean Cleanup project's "Mega Expedition" is said to have been the largest ocean research expedition in history

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Ocean Cleanup project completes Great Pacific Garbage Patch research expedition

In May, the Ocean Cleanup project announced that its first deployment would be delivered in the Korea Strait next year. That will pave the way for its ultimate goal of cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. With that in mind, a research expedition at the Garbage Patch has just been completed.

The 2,000 m (6,600 ft) Ocean Cleanup system will be deployed off the coast of Tsushima island in the Korea Strait

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Ocean Cleanup concept to become a reality next year

A concept designed to rid the oceans of plastic waste is to become a reality next year. Boyan's Slat's Ocean Cleanup system is expected to be deployed in the second quarter of 2016 in the waters between Japan and South Korea. It will be the longest floating structure ever deployed in the ocean.

The Ocean Cleanup Project hopes to utilize the oceans' gyres as a means to collect plastic waste

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Cleanup Array concept aims to rid the oceans of plastic waste

Boyan Slat, an aerospace engineering student at the Delft University of Technology, is working to combine environmentalism, technology, and his creative outlook to get rid of plastic debris in our oceans.