Mr Slat was 16 and still at school when he was diving in Greece and first saw for himself the amount of plastic polluting the sea.
16岁的斯莱特还在上学时曾经去希腊潜水,第一次亲眼看到了污染大海的塑料垃圾的数量。
“There were more bags than fish down there,” he recalls. Two years later he came up with a solution, quit university after six months and set up The Ocean Cleanup as a company.
他回忆道:“那里的塑料袋比下面的鱼还要多。”两年后,他想出了一个解决方案,并在上大学6个月后退学,创建了“海洋清理”公司。
Following a crowdfunding campaign that raised £1.57m and later investment bringing the total to £28.56m, the company now has 65 paid staff, including researchers and engineers.
该公司经过众筹活动筹集到157万英镑(约合1383万元人民币),后来得到的投资使得筹资总额达到2856万英镑(约合2.5亿元人民币),现在公司拥有65名员工,其中包括研究人员和工程师。
Mr Slat, 23, says the first plastic to arrive on shore will be a major milestone.
现年23岁的斯莱特说,第一块被送到岸上的塑料将成为一个重要的里程碑。
“We as a humanity created this problem, so I think it's our responsibility also to help solve it,” he said.
他说:“作为人类,我们制造了这个问题,所以我认为我们也有责任帮助解决这个问题。”
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