Summary, Draft #1

In the article, “Boy Genius Boyan Slat's Giant Ocean Cleanup Machine Is Real,” Schiller (2017) has reported how Boyan Slat’s new innovation could radically improve the situation in the Pacific Garbage Patch with projections to remove 50% of the plastic waste within the next 5 years. Schiller stated how Slat's new innovation resolves previous problems with the system, and how it could help improve both efficiency and affordability in the long run. He mentions that the new system uses anchors suspended in the deep sea layer as opposed to driving foundations into the seabed thereby increasing operational lifespan, and reducing deployment cost of the system. He then reports how Slat validates his organizations estimate with "Mathematic modelling". The author then mentions how Slat plans to convert and reuse all the plastic waste effectively in the long run.