Deployment will become
longest floating structure in world history
Boyan Slat, 20-year old
founder and CEO of The Ocean Cleanup, today announced that the world’s first
system to passively clean up plastic pollution from the world’s oceans is to be
deployed in 2016. He made the announcement at Asia’s largest technology
conference, Seoul Digital Forum, in South-Korea.
The array is projected
to be deployed in Q2 2016. The feasibility of deployment, off the coast of
Tsushima, an island located in the waters between Japan and South-Korea is
currently being researched.
The system will span
2000 meters, thereby becoming the longest floating structure ever deployed in
the ocean (beating the current record of 1000 m held by the Tokyo Mega-Float).
It will be operational for at least two years, catching plastic pollution before
it reaches the shores of the proposed deployment location of Tsushima island.
Tsushima island is evaluating whether the plastic can be used as an alternative
energy source.
The scale of the
plastic pollution problem, whereby in the case of Tsushima island,
approximately one cubic meter of pollution per person is washed up each year,
has led the Japanese the local government to seek innovative solutions to the
problem.
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