Comments on: Teenager’s Invention Could Clean Ocean Garbage Within 5 Years

By: Jothron the Wise

Jothron the Wise — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 03:48:00 +0000

This sounds like a great idea, and it would be but there is a problem. The ocean gyres that this would supposedly clean actually don’t contain much detectable plastic rubbish. The rubbish is detectable, but it is always in very small particles that I highly doubt this machine would be able to deal with. On a smaller scale around coastlines of countries that dump rubbish at sea, this would be perfect. The truth is that plastic rubbish takes years to reach the gyres, and in that time it is pulverised by waves and degraded by sunlight, by the time it gets there it is in particle form. If you believe pictures on the internet there is a massive rubbish dump in the middle of the gyre, but this simply isn’t true.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 15 Sep 2013 03:01:00 +0000

2 words to solve your money issues: crowd funding.

By: Mr Douche

Mr Douche — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 13:09:00 +0000

Fantastic Idea… no its not too late, if it can actually “clean the ocean in 5 years” like its suggesting then that would be absolutely amazing and should be done. If governments donated money to whatever part of the ocean their contries live on then that should definitely help flip the bill but I just simply dont see any governments around the world actually doing that, there is no proffit to be made and the reason they dont case is they see the world as they wont be around to see everything going to shit so they dont even care, or care about their children’s children, just whats happening now.

There is no money to be made here, its purely for the good of the planet, that IS the reward, without our ocean, this planet wouldn’t even exist and that is the under-lining factor. I hope this guy gets funding or someone funds it like Richard Branson who actually would donate money for the good of the planet… This is such an important issue and if this can be fixed, we need to get on it NOW before it actually is too late.

By: simonb

simonb — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 09:21:00 +0000

judge me as u want but this is not enoutgh main part of cleaning sh1t we already made is great no doubt but collecting new somewhere in middle part well there is pleace for creatures to get infected again there is technology that some contrys started to use and it should be used even more in future to prevent from any polution it is plastic that roots its not even plastic as we knew now since that plastic bag just puted on the sun disapears in like 6 moth but yet again it becomes smal particles that we breath i seen technologie that is made with something like wood that has only coal and when it roots it becomes not a polution but even a fertilizers in other words it would help not even at polution but at greenhouses efect too my head is full of ideas not of only what to do but how to do but since i live in small country and my family wasint ritch i will not have an oportunity to change something but i can try writing my ideas that some rich smart man read it and use it to clean this mess we all made

By: Mat Duwan

Mat Duwan — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 09:12:00 +0000

nice invention but 5 year is a long wait but still cool…!

By: Jax17

Jax17 — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 06:54:00 +0000

How about this idea? There is this great site where inventors and entrepreneurs go to raise money for something they truly believe in. Its called Kickstarter. Now if this isnt a great idea for that, where the whole world can get involved, then I dont know what is.

By: tobagganski343

tobagganski343 — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 06:05:00 +0000

You would make money but how much would one of those garbage cleaning vessels cost to build? Probably quite a bit.

By: Da Wookie

Da Wookie — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 05:57:00 +0000

I like the cocept but struggle to give them credence when they make claims like “.. allowing life to flourish and the seas to repair themselves after humans have polluted it over the last 200 or so years.” So humans had plastics some two hundred years ago or did they not pollute before then? Stick to the facts, don’t make left wing kook statements, and let a good idea stand on its own merits.

By: daniel

daniel — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 03:30:00 +0000

is it weird that humans are the only organisms that pay to live on earth ??

By: Sandy Bruce

Sandy Bruce — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 02:01:00 +0000

Its never too late as long as we are all alive. There is a possible solution. I think this is a great idea and every country should pitch in. The very poor countries get a pass on the first 5 years. The world powers and emerging economies have enough money to get this done without breaking a sweat. We waste more on things that are a lot less important. Matter of fact. We collect $1 from every person in the Large countries and emerging markets. That would be enough to sustain this project for years to come. Thanks for sharing!