The 20- Year Old Boy Invents A Brilliant Machine That Can Clean The Ocean In Just 5 Years

This can be easily termed as sheer Genius. Because at this age we were surely thinking about our boyfriends/girlfriends, proxy in classes, and were tackling through those hormonal changes. But this guy Boyan Slat in very unlike most of us and, has taken the initiative to make a change in the world.

He has taken the plunge to clean the vast ocean and do it all in the just 5 years. The young men has invented one such machine that has the capability to steer clear the ocean from all the plastics and make it pollution free. The machine looks like inspired from a giant space craft, but is capable of doing a lot more than we can even think of.

“Taking care of the world’s ocean garbage problem is one of the largest environmental challenges mankind faces today. Not only will this first cleanup array contribute to cleaner waters and coasts but it simultaneously is an essential step towards our goal of cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This deployment will enable us to study the system’s efficiency and durability over time,” Slat said in a press release.

This Dutch Boy is the founder and basically the CEO of the an NGO started by him named, The Ocean Clean up. At an age when we are busy taking our school and college initiative seriously, he has taken up a big responsibility on his shoulder. But surely this did not happened overnight, Boyan went on a diving trip in Greece where he saw more plastic than marine life, that is when he resolved to do something about it.

Boyan Slat alongwith his friend Nguyen Tan, developed this project that won many awards at tech summits. And, if all goes as planned, the collected garbage can be recycled, with costs going to offset the cleanup.

The spacecraft looking machine is suppose to hit the oceans by 2016.

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