Mapping the Great Pacific Garbage Patch - Spatial Source
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Every year, about eight million tons of plastic enters the oceans. To combat this, a bright ideain 2013 Boyan Slat who was then 18 found a solution to rid the oceans of excess rubbish by a passive network of floating barriers that concentrate floating plastic using existing ocean currents.
In preparation for full deployment in 2020, The Ocean Cleanup in the summer of 2015 organised the Mega Expedition, in which 30 vessels crossed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch simultaneously to produce the first high-resolution map of the plastic pollution problem.