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Saturday, March 7, 2015

An Innovative Solution to Great Pacific Garbage Patch

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljrbtYlku-k

            I have watched this Tedtalk about how the Great Pacific Garbage Patch can be solved. The speaker is a18 year-old highschool student, and I find his idea very innovative.

            . We have always thought of education and increasing the awareness as a first-step of the solution for such global environmental issues. But we have never thought of how we can directly solve such issue. His idea is rather direct and simple because his idea is a machine that is simply trapping trashes.
           
            His idea is still very radical because he used ocean current as a mover of the machine to save the maintanace costs of the machine. As a result of this low-budget solution, he expected some entrepreneurs could invest to profit from selling plastics. This profitable solution certainly increases demand for investment.


            His idea is not concrete yet and we might have to be skeptical about his statistics and expectations. But his idea is innovative and I believe some developments will be made on his idea.

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