-5.9 million tons of garbage enter the ocean each year.
-$5.9 million in donations received by the Ocean Cleanup project in 2017 combined with $17 million in reserves from previous years
-The project is the expensive, untried brainchild of a 23-year-old Dutch college dropout named Broyan Slat, disgusted with the plastic waste he encountered while diving off the coast of Greece as a teen, he devoted his life to cleaning up the ocean.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/science/2018/08/07/giant-floating-trash-collector-heads-pacific-garbage-patch/831803002/
