# How Can We Reduce the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-we-reduce-the-great-pacific-garbage-patch/779832
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [February 14, 2017, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-we-reduce-the-great-pacific-garbage-patch/779832 "2017-02-14T17:45:15Z")
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### Author: ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2017, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-we-reduce-the-great-pacific-garbage-patch/779832/21 "2017-02-16T20:03:08Z")

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> [@Isosleepy](#):
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> Insufficiently descriptive, so not a link I clicked. Had you mentioned the kids name, or his origin, or some other identifier, I would not have made my post.

Wasn’t my post - just one in which I clicked on the links. The second link, if you hover your cursor over it, contains Boyan Slat’s name.

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