The Selective Water Vacuum (Daily Mail + TEDTalk video)

• Could a teenager save the world's oceans? Student, 19, claims his invention could clean up the seas in just five years.
• Device could remove 20 billion tonnes of plastic from the world's oceans.
• Boyan Slat came up with the idea of a series of floating booms and processing platforms designed to 'suck' in floating plastic rubbish.
• The young engineering student's 'ocean cleanup' concept is designed to be self sufficient and harness energy from the sun and waves.
• His invention could even make money by selling the plastic collected from the oceans, which kills millions of animals every year.

By SARAH GRIFFITHS

PUBLISHED: 07:37 EST, 9 September 2013 | UPDATED: 09:30 EST, 9 September 2013

A Dutch teenager has invented a device that he claims could clean up some 20 billion tonnes of plastic waste from the world's oceans.

Boyan Slat, 19, came up with the idea of a series of floating booms and processing platforms designed to collect floating plastic rubbish.

The 'ocean cleanup' concept is designed to capture the floating plastic but allow life like fish and plankton to pass through unharmed, while saving the waste materials to be recycled.

Boyan Slat, 19, came up with the idea of a series of floating booms and processing platforms (pictured) designed to collect floating plastic rubbish

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