http://www.boatinternational.com | February 2016PHOTOGRAPH: JURGEN SCHEPERS
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Great barrier
+ FOR MORE NEWS SEE PAGE 29A 21-year-old Dutch entrepreneur has created a
rubbish-catching barrier that may solve one of the ocean’s
biggest problems. About eight million tonnes of plastic enter
the seas each year, killing more than a million seabirds and
100,000 marine mammals. Boyan Slat’s floating barriers,
which have succeeded in prototype tests, use currents and
wind to funnel debris into patches that can then be
collected. Further trials off the Netherlands and Japan are
planned this year and the real project could launch in 2020.Plastic trap that could save the seas