So wonderful to hear this news! We need more solutions like this and fast!  

A pioneering Dutch experiment to try collecting plastic rubbish from the oceans has successfully caught floating debris for the first time.

Boyan Slat, founder of The Ocean Cleanup, said that after a failed effort last year, his giant v-shaped boom system had overcome technical challenges to start removing waste.

“We are now catching plastics,” he told journalists yesterday. “We now have a self-contained system in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch that is using the natural forces of the ocean to passively catch and concentrate plastics.”

Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2218857-giant-boom-traps-plastic-waste-from-the-oceans-for-the-first-time/#ixzz61TAyp0gl

Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2218857-giant-boom-traps-plastic-waste-from-the-oceans-for-the-first-time/#ixzz61T9nGx2D