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THE OCEAN cleanup
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is teeming with plastic trash.
If the much-hyped system is a success, the tricky question is how to deal with all the plastic waste it will bring back.
And there's up to 16 times more trash than scientists had thought.
A young inventor has a cleanup plan -- but he has to understand the enormity first.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Boyan Slat and The Ocean Cleanup have already deployed their first working prototype in the North Sea and plan to deploy the main device by 2020.
It could eventually remove more than 150 million pounds of trash from the Pacific Ocean.
The water filtration system is like one you'd find in a fish tank, but it's designed for an entire ocean.
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