Dutch inventor unveils device to scoop plastic out of rivers.
A young Dutch inventor is widening his effort to clean up floating plastic from the Pacific Ocean by moving into rivers, too, using a new floating device to catch garbage before it reaches the seas.
"We need to close the tap, which means preventing more plastic from reaching the ocean in the first place," he said, calling rivers"the arteries that carry the trash from land to sea." Izham Hashim from the government of Selangor state in Malaysia was present at the launch and said he was happy with the machine.
"This is not going to be easy, but imagine if we do get this done," he told his audience of enthusiastic supporters, who whooped, clapped and cheered his announcements."We could truly make our oceans clean again." Slat showed off how it worked by dumping hundreds of yellow rubber ducks into the water at the launch event in Rotterdam's port. The interceptor caught nearly all of them.
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