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Wouldn't it be very effective to deploy this technology around the major plastic pollution sources instead?

• sp332 8y ago
  Stopping the pollution from happening or cleaning up water in the rivers before it reaches the ocean will have a bigger impact over the long run. But neither of those can remove the plastic that is already in the ocean, which is what this project is for.
  • josefx 8y ago
    Unless their cleanup efforts manage to outpace the poluters we would still need to stop the constant flow of garbage for this project to have any meaning.
    • michelb 8y ago
      Stopping the polluters is a much harder behavioural, but mostly political problem. I am 42, I don't think I will see a solution to that in my lifetime. I applaud anything that makes this problem more visible and tangible (pictures of that patch are not enough), and if Boyan has a shot at getting some plastic out after some iterations, awesome! If not, then this has been an inexpensive awareness campaign, showing that it is indeed a much harder problem then anyone thinks.
    • sp332 8y ago
      Well, yeah. But there are other projects for that.