Ocean Cleanup is a non-profit lead by Dutch inventor Boyan Slat, who pumped £15million into designing a 2,000-foot ‘Pac-Man’ rubbish eating structure.
The unmanned boom – called System 001 – is shaped like a U as it’s pushed by the currents and it is hoped to halve the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
The patch is a pile of floating trash scattered between California and Hawaii made of an estimated 1.8trillion pieces of junk and is so big it can be seen from space.
System 001, which will be launched from San Fransisco in mid-October, has a short netting underneath it designed so fish can swim below.
After the boom collects the rubbish a ship will meet and collect the plastic before transporting it to land for sorting and recycling.
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If all goes well the structure will be brought to the garbage patch by mid-October.
Ocean Cleanup was founded by Slat in 2013 when he was just 18. Now 24 he hopes the technology will “rid the world’s oceans of plastic”.
He said on Saturday: “I’ve definitely never been so confident about the chance of success as I am today.”
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