However the plastic soup is a worse problem and is very difficult to solve, one solution is already invented by the 24 years old, dutch Boyan Slat. On 8 September 2014 the system entered the Pacific Ocean. This Ocean Cleanup starts the first major test phase with a 600 long tube with a screen of 3 meters deep, which has to bring the plastic together. After that, a ship will take the garbage to the mainland. Slat notices that the plastic only gets smaller and smaller into micro plastics. These plastics are impossible to clean up, but will still enter our food chain. Slat says: “the sooner we get out, the better!” Unfortunately the system didn’t work as it was supposed to be. The Ocean Cleanup moved too slow, to take the plastic with it. 

There aren’t other solutions which clean up the plastic nowadays, but we can avoid that it is getting bigger and bigger.
We started the plastic soup, so we have to stop it as well. There are a few small things we can do:
- Reuse: Reusing garbage is one of the main things, we can do to avoid the plastic entering the sea. Plastic bags and plastic bottles can all be reused and it’s not necessary for those to enter the sea.

- Reducing: Another thing you can do is bringing your own iron cup to your coffee shop, or bring an own bag if you go shopping. This way, less plastic is being used and less plastic will end up in the sea.
- Recycle: Recycle everything you can. To give an illustration, just 9% of plastic is actually recycled world wide. Recycling reduces the amount of new plastic made. If we all recycle, we all help avoiding the plastic soup getting bigger.

- Cleanups: Organize and participate more cleanups on beaches, but also in streets, so less plastic will end up in the sea. Throw all your garbage away in the bins, and not in the streets or beaches.
- Avoid microbeads: Microbeads are small plastic particles, which you find in some products, like: bodywashes, toothpastes and face scrub. Eventually these particles will go through the sewer system into the sea. If we avoid them, this process won’t take place.
- Bins: If there are more bins, less plastic will be thrown away on the street or beach.

It’s difficult for us, normal inhabitants, to get rid of the plastic soups in the world. But, with all those small things, we can help avoiding the plastic soups to become bigger.

 

What is in your opinion the best way to stop the plastic soup getting bigger?