Once there was a Stone Age, a Bronze Age, and now we are in the middle of the plastic age. Because every year we produce about 300 million tons of plastic and a fraction of that enters rivers, waterways and eventually the oceans. If you want to eat a biscuit nowadays, we have to buy a biscuit within a plastic wrap within a plastic tray, within a cardboard box, within some plastic foil, within a plastic bag. It's not hazardous, nuclear waste. It's a biscuit. And this is me. I love diving. Just taking you through my holiday slides here. This is at the Pristine Azaurus Islands. And this is how that beaches look. Covered with plastic fragments. Due to sun and waves over the years, the garbage breaks down into ever smaller pieces. But remains plastic. And while interestingly, you don't see a lot of red particles in here. Because those look like food to birds more than any other coal. So this is the result. And while the debris primarily collects at these five rotating currents, called the GIS where it doesn't only directly kill sea life, but due to the adsorption of PCBs and DDTs also poisoned the food chain, a food chain that includes us, humans. And while diving in Greece, I came across more plastic bags than fish. And astounded by the depressing sights, my Scottish dive body turned to me and said, lots of jellyfishes here. Seeing about a thousand, there were no jellyfishes. And when talking about environmental issues in general, I think a common response is, well, let's a long way off. That's for our children to worry about. So hello. Here I am. Why don't we just clean it up? Now, there are multiple reasons why current plastic pollution research is believe we should focus on prevention. For example, through education, broader than attempting a cleanup operation, because we would need to deal with five colossal areas, each moving around. Plastic sizes ranging from these massive ghost nets to molecules. By catches and emissions, furthermore, we would need to get all the plastic back to land. It would need to be financially realistic. And it's in fact the total amount of plastic within the GIS are no. But about a year ago, when it was, all my way to the hairdressers and I must admit, I don't go the often. But I had this little epiphany. I saw even old people throwing rubbish in the water. And I thought, well, some people will just never learn, but they. So we'll need a combination of both votes. I will need them soon. So then, I simply use this list of concerns as challenges. And in fact, a week later, as a school assignment, I had the chance to spend a lot of time on a subject of choice together with a friend of mine. And this gave me the perfect opportunity to do new and fundamental research regarding plastic pollution. I then went on holiday to Greece, taking this mentor troll with me, which is the common device for sampling plastic. And so I had to leave home all my clothes, due to local, airline, weight limit policies. Well, the troll we built, however, is 15 times finer than a regular one. And what we discovered was that the count of those minute particles is, in fact, 40 times higher than the larger particles. So we have to take this more plastic out. But then, we would have wanted to take the importance, plankton out as well. Luckily, these could simply be separated using centrifugal forces. However, nobody knew how much G forces commons or plankton could survive. So we took the troll out again. Oh, we didn't have a boat. And we tested it. And in fact, they can survive over 50 Gs, which is more than enough for successful separation. And then, in order to know up to which depth the ocean surface should be cleaned, we designed and built something that I call a multi-level troll. We basically stuck 10 trolls on top of each other. And here you can see a testing that on the North Sea. I thought, we was a great day. I was the only one who didn't get sick, but then the so perfectly working troll would broke. And of course, we didn't quit there. Because I believe you can't clean up something. You don't know the size of. I've heard estimations ranging from several hundred thousand tons. All the way to a hundred million tons. But I knew we really needed a better estimate some scientific data. So then I simply contacted some professors from the university's Delft, Utrecht and Hawaii. We then actually helped us with determining how much plastic there is in the top layers of the giants. The result of whopping 7.25 million tons of extractible plastic in 2020. That's the weight of a thousand-y4 towers floating in the giants. Now, researcher and effect discoverer of the great Pacific garbage batch, Charles Moore. Estimates, it would take 17,000 years to remediate that. However, I believe the great Pacific garbage batch can completely clean itself in just five years. And that is a difference of 78,999 years. Of course, this is the conventional idea of extracting liter so you have a vessel and a net fishing for plastic. Of course, multiple vessels could be used to cover a larger area. But by spanning bones between those vessels, suddenly a much larger area would be covered. Because the essence is not to catch the debris but divert it. Because there is no mesh size, we can even get out the smallest particles. And since all organisms can simply move under the bones, we'll be able to eliminate by catches by 99.98%. But if we want to do something different, shouldn't we also have to think differently? For example, then, the absorption of PCB's biplastic is not such a bad thing. It's a good thing. Get all the plastics out as some attain its leroom move tons and tons of persistent organic pollutants from the marine environment. But how would we minimize environmental, financial, and transportation costs then? Let's use our enemy to our advantage, OK? The oceanic currents moving around is not an obstacle. It's a solution. Why move 30 oceans if the oceans can move through you? By fixing the ships to the sea bed and letting the rotating current do their work, fast amounts of funds, manpower and emissions will be saved. The platform will of course be completely self-supported, receiving their energy from the sun, currents and waves, and is spired by my diving at the Azores. It now actually seems that the best shape for these platforms is that of a mentor A by letting its wings sway like a real mentor. We can ensure contact over the inlet with the surface even in the roughest weather. Well, imagine a zigzag array of just 24 of these platforms cleaning an entire ocean. Let's make a comparison, OK? These are the beaches of Hong Kong. Earlier this year, the largest plastic spill in history, and this is the source, just six containers. How much could we get out over 55 of these containers per day? Not only is plastic directly responsible for over a billion US dollars in vessel damages a year, know the awesome surprise for me was that if we sell the plastics retrieved from the five giants, we'd make over 500 million US dollars. And this is effect more than the plan would cost so execute. In other words, it's profitable. But I believe that the key thing is that only if we realize change is more important than money, money will come. And yes, it will be one of the largest environmental rescue operations yet. But we created this mess. Heck, we even invented this new material first before we made this mess. So please, don't tell me we can't clean this up together. Thank you very much.