FILTHY-MINDED TEENAGER

摘要

While most other kids his agewere thinking about how to sneak into R-rated movies, Boyan Slat, a Dutch teenager, was contemplating how to overcome some of the most vexing physical hurdles inherent in our ocean cleanup efforts. Specifically, Slat remembers wondering to himself: "What if there were a way to turn oceanic currents-which can make it so difficult to collect marine trash-from an obstacle into a solution?" Now, at the ripe old age of 19, Slat may have come up with a plan for doing just that. His ingenious design for a marine garbage trap, should it ever be realized, has the potential to capture nearly one-third of the 7.25 million metric tons of plastic currently floating atop the surface of our oceans.