The Ocean Cleanup

Five years ago, I remember reading about an 18-year-old who was crowdsourcing a  giant floating boom that could clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. It was interesting, but I was dubious. Mea culpa, because System 001 launched from San Francisco last month. Today, I made the donation to The Ocean Cleanup, the organization that’s running System 001, that I should have made five years ago.

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