Who is he? A determined 20-year-old Dutch inventor who believes he has found a cheap and effective way of harvesting the plastic waste circulating in the world’s ocean gyres.

Gyres: what are they? Currents that create five revolving ocean systems in which debris congregates. The biggest is the infamous Pacific Garbage Patch, between Hawaii and California, where a so-called plastic soup is spread over an area twice the size of Texas.

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