{"id":13415,"date":"2013-09-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-22T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20130924-01n"},"modified":"2013-09-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-22T22:00:00","slug":"cleanup-array-concept-aims-to-rid-the-oceans-of-plastic-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/cleanup-array-concept-aims-to-rid-the-oceans-of-plastic-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleanup Array concept aims to rid the oceans of plastic waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Boyan Slat, an aerospace engineering student at the Delft University of Technology, is working to combine environmentalism, technology, and his creative outlook to rid our oceans of plastic debris. His Ocean Cleanup Project aims to utilize the oceans\u2019 natural gyres (five circular currents in the oceans around the world \u2013 two in the Atlantic, two in the Pacific, and one in the Indian) to collect plastic waste.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Plastic pollution in our oceans weighs in at millions of tons, costs millions of dollars annually, kills hundreds of thousands of aquatic animals, may aid the spread of algae and other invasive species, and acts as transportation for other pollutants such as PCB and DDT. <\/p>\n<p><i>&#8230; Full text: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/array-rid-oceans-plastic-waste\/29154\/\" >www.gizmag.com\/array-rid-oceans-plastic-waste\/29154\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tags: self-supporting, solar energy, recycling, feasibility study, Ocean Surface CURrent Simulator (OSCURS)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>Boyan Slat, an aerospace engineering student at the Delft University of Technology, is working to combine environmentalism, technology, and his creative outlook to rid our<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[],"class_list":["post-13415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13415"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=13415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}