It is a picture of a sea turtle that amazed the world a few years ago. There is a plastic straw deep in the nose, and a team of marine biologists in the US is using the tools to pull the straw out. The tortoise was painful, closing his eyes, waving his head, and enduring his silence, resembling human suffering. It took five minutes to remove this straw. As these photos were released, there was a growing awareness of marine plastic pollution.
But for a moment, too. It has been several years since then, but nothing has changed. Plastic waste left in the sea around the world collects in a specific area due to the effects of circulation of currents and winds, resulting in the formation of a huge garbage island. According to a study in 2011, about half of the land area of ​​the country, the size of the trash has recently increased rapidly, reaching 1.55 million square kilometers, seven times the combined area of ​​North and South Korea. It is mainly concentrated in the east of the North Pacific fishery area. It is a plastic and plastic waste that does not rot more than 90%. 5 The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is located between San Francisco and Hawaii, two times the size of Texas.
Humanity's efforts to dismantle this huge garbage island have begun. One of the things that nobody could have done was to start funding a crowded fund of young Dutch entrepreneurs. The Ocean Cleanup project, which started at $ 2 million in 2013, is now available for $ 30 million. The main character who did the big job is Mr. Bojan Slate from the Netherlands who is 24 years old. The young man, who is an inventor, is in the process of dismantling 90% of the world's marine plastic garbage by 2040, aiming at collecting 50 tons of plastic garbage in North America and Pacific by first April next year.
The marine garbage disposal method is surprisingly simple. It is like a fish holding a net in the sea, the plastic floating in the sea is trapped in a long U-shaped pipeline and the ship collects and processes it. First of all, we plan to install a 600m long pipeline on the huge trash islands of the North American Pacific coast, where 3m of net is drained down the sea to contain plastic waste. This pipeline also has a GPS unit so that it can be tracked by satellites, and it is designed to determine how much garbage is collected. The camera also has a remote control. It took about five years to develop and test this collection device.
I also have a skeptical view of this project. It is pointed out that marine environmental protection NGOs and volunteers are less effective than direct plastic garbage collection, because they can not deal with micro-plastics that threaten the breeding and survival of marine life. Some argue that if we learn that marine litter is collected and processed, we will increase, not reduce, the use of disposable plastics.

But no objection or assertion can blame this young man's hard work and enthusiasm. In the meantime, humanity has been too passive in preserving marine ecosystems, and the sea has always been mistaken for being clean. The sea is a report of living resources and an important food source. If the ocean continues to be polluted, human survival will eventually be threatened. I hope that the plastic waste disposal campaign will spread in the world with the "Ocean Cleanup Project" of the young inventor and the plastic waste that human waste has been used like the wind of this youth can be recycled as a resource again.