"Hello here I am" Boyan Slat is here to save the world's oceans.

Boyan Slat who is just 18 years old may have solved the problem of how to clean the world's oceans. His plan to create a manta ray shaped ship anchored to the sea floor that allows plastic to come to it is not only brilliant he says its profitable. (see below picture)

The ships, 24 of them, would be anchored in a zig-zag pattern across the pacific garbage patch where the currents of the ocean would flow through them. The ships, outfitted with filters, would catch and collect the plastic while discarding any plankton that may have been caught. The ships would run off the power of the sun and ocean currants and could clean the pacific garbage patch in 5 years he claims. If he sold the plastic collected to recycling industries who buy old plastic he could reportedly make $500 billion US dollar. That is more than his start up costs.

Here are some frightening figures about plastics:

• We produce 300 million tons of plastic each year
• 7.25 million tons of plastic is in the pacific garbage patch
• The largest plastic spill was last year off the coast of Hong Kong (6 shipping crates worth)
• In parts of the world plastic pieces are covering beaches like sand or rock

The state of the world's oceans are absolutely sickening and I dearly hope that Slat's project gets the funding and support it needs. The world's ocean, beaches, and wildlife face a very frightening future if we don't start cleaning now.

His website is below.

http://www.boyanslat.com/plastic4/

The website is a call for action and help.Slat and his team of 50 engineers, modellers, external experts and students are currently conducting their feasibility study and say that their report should be ready in several months. I look forward to their report and am optimistic. I really think it would be amazing to see this project completed and executed.