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With a prototype in process due to be tested in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in 2018, Boyan Slat , a Dutch inventor, entrepreneur and aerospace engineering student drop-out, wants to build the largest floating barrier every deployed and use the ocean's own currents to collect the trash of the seas.