Solar-powered system removes more than 143,000 pounds of trash from Los Angeles waterway

Solar-powered system removes more than 143,000 pounds of trash from Los Angeles waterway

More than a decade ago, Boyan Slat set out to clear plastic already drifting through the Pacific Ocean.  Now, the Dutch engineer's nonprofit appears to be making more progress with a different tactic: keeping that waste from reaching the sea in the first place. What happened? Slat started Ocean Cleanup when he was just 18, with the Great Pacific Garbage Patch as an early focus. But as CleanTechnica noted, the sheer scale of that floating polluti…