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"The world's most out of hand school project" aiming to clean our oceans

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Boyan Slat, the 20-year-old founder of The Ocean Cleanup, talks to Dominic Laurie about his plans to clear the world's oceans of plastic pollution with a 100km-wide floating barrier. The initiative, which started as a school project and with 300 euros of pocket money, went viral on the internet and raised $2.2m in a crowd-funding campaign last summer. A 2km-wide pilot project is planned for the waters between Japan and South Korea next year. (Photo: Boyan Slat. Credit: The Ocean Cleanup)

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