This 21-Year-Old’s Dream To Clean Up Plastic From The Ocean Just Took A Big Step Toward Reality

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First published on ClimateProgress.org, a project of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, which was recently named one of Time magazine’s Top 25 blogs of 2010.

Around eight million metric tons of plastic waste enter the oceans from land each year. Boyan Slat wants to clean it up.

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