[LOCUTOR]

Track twenty-seven, unit twelve, come rain or shine

[HOMEM]

[…] We must defuse this ticking time bomb and that has been my mission ever since I founded the ocean cleanup four years ago. A lot has happened in those four years. It all began with one simple idea: instead of going after the plastic, we let the plastic come to us, saving time, energy and cost by using the natural ocean currents to our advantage we can let the ocean clean itself. I envisioned a network of extremely long floating screens which would first concentrate the plastic, so that we could then extract it, store it, before we could then ship it to land for recycling. And since the idea was to use a closed screen, instead of nets, we could avoid the bycatch of sea life and we then showed that with a single one-hundred kilometer stream we will be able to clean up about forty-two% of this Great Pacific Garbage Patch in just ten years' time. […]