New Ocean Cleanup Array Set To Deploy This Year — Potential To Save Our Oceans From Microscopic Plastic

21 year old Boyan Slat is the founder and CEO of The Ocean Cleanup and inventor of the Ocean Cleanup Array; one of the worlds best (if not only) solutions to combat the enormous amount of plastic in the ocean. Currently the Pacific Ocean is home to a mass of plastic pollution the size of Texas, and we add about 8 million tons to the ocean every year. Known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, it and other garbage patches like it are not actually visible by Satellite or even boat.

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