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• ‟ Plastic doesn't have to be ocean plastic pollution.

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• ‟ Coastlines are very effective ways of catching plastic. But the thing is, in those vast ocean garbage patches, there's simply no coastlines to catch any plastic. So we built our own artificial coastline.

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• ‟ We absolutely need to clean up the plastic that's already in the ocean. It won't go away by itself. But we do also need to make sure that no more plastic enters the oceans in the first place. These things should go hand in hand.

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• ‟ We need to close the tap, which means preventing more plastic from reaching the ocean in the first place.

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• ‟ I envisioned an extremely long network of floating barriers - they're like curtains floating in the ocean which are attached to the seabed. So what happens is that the current comes around and plastic gets pushed towards these barriers. And because it's in a V-shape, the plastic gets push towards the center.

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• ‟ Really, the ocean itself - that's really the thing that we're up against, the most destructive environment on the planet.

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• ‟ I do enjoy being at the ocean, like most people, but not so much being on the ocean.

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• ‟ About once a month, a vessel visits each of these clean-up systems, almost like a garbage truck of the ocean, would bring the plastic back to shore where it would then be processed and recycled into new products that we would then sell, at a premium, of course, because we could sell it as being made out of ocean plastic.

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• ‟ I've gone on a research expedition in the Atlantic Ocean before. I was sick for the entire week after that.

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• ‟ Can we build a system which is able to survive on the ocean for years? That is the key question we are trying to answer here with the North Sea prototype.

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• ‟ For 60 years man has been putting plastic into the ocean. And from that day onward we're also taking it back out again.

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• ‟ We think the fastest way to clean the ocean is to learn by doing.

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