... Litter Extraction". This Dutch teenager invented a device that could remove 20 billion tons of trash from the world's oceans. The device consists of "an anchored network of floating books and processing platforms"00. The device would span the radius of a "garbage patch" and the angle of the booms would navigate the plastic in the direction of ... the plastic retrieved from the 5 gyres, we would make in fact more money than the plan would cost to execute". An invention like the one proposed by this young teen is a step in the right direction. In conclusion, with inventions like the one p...

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