The Great Pacific Garbage Patch could be gone in ten years – for chump change

$7.5 billion needed, the kind of cash Apple makes without trying
Video After six years of sea trials, environmental group The Ocean Cleanup claims it has proved that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch – a floating mass of plastic waste twice the size of Texas – could be cleaned up in ten years using current technology, at a cost of a mere $7.5 billion.…