Innovation is vital for clean oceans says Nor-Shipping director

Nor-Shipping Director, Birgit Liodden has reiterated the importance of cleaning up our oceans and states that now is the time to use technology and innovation to do so.

  • Estimates of over 5 trillion pieces of plastic polluting the ocean warrants a need to address the problem before we reach an inevitable tipping point Liodden says.
  • Boyan Slat and his Ocean Cleanup initiative shows how the issue can be tackled head on.
  • Liodden emphasises the importance of new thinking from a new generation and states that Boyan Slat is a perfect example of this.

Read more about the Ocean Cleanup initiative and Nor-Shipping 2017.

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