According to the chief scientist of the UN environmental programme, Jacqueline McGlade, a giant garbage patch stretching roughly 5.8m sq miles can be seen from outer space (Nelson, 2015). Over the past few years, there has been an outstanding development in the attempt to clean our oceans. Only this time it might be just more than another attempt - we might have a solution: a 21 year-old, Boyan Slat, seems to have found a way not only to mitigate, but also reverse the ugly tr