Cleaning the ocean from plastic waste, a 19 y/o student has the answer

[dutchmeat]

I love the TED videos, I just came across this one and I thought I'd share it.

[video=youtube;ROW9F-c0kIQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ROW9F-c0kIQ[/video]

Let's hope we execute this plan.

 

[Tenzo]

That sounds like a good solid plan. And he's right. We created this, we must clean it up. It's our responsibility.
I never imagined that the oceans have that much plastic in them.

 

[Baaja]

He argumented for it quite spectacularly! Sustainable and environmental problems are potential cash cows because they bring so many new opportunities for innovative solutions, like this one. Like he said...the idea itself is lucrative!

 

[Horatio]

Wow, that is actually a pretty good plan! Why aren't we doing this? I can only assume it's people like Aurem who are holding us back from doing it.

 

[Celticus]

I hope someone is willing to finance that project. It's time we do something to clean the earth.

Edit:
Found some kind of kickstarter website for this project:
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-ocean-cleanup-feasibility-study

 

[Horatio]

We can only hope that this does get indiegogo-ed enough. I donated!