A young man is close to launching the world’s first ocean cleanup system from Alameda. Twenty-three-year-old Boyan Slat is the CEO of a Dutch company called The Ocean Cleanup. He’s been working for years, engineering and testing the system to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. It’s floating in the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and California and is about twice the size of Texas. It consists of human trash such as plastic, toilet seats, packaging, bottles, bags, toys and more. The company hopes to eventually draw 90 percent of the trash out of the water.