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A Dutch foundation aiming to rid the world's oceans of plastic waste says it will start cleaning up the huge area of floating junk known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch within the next 12 months, two years earlier than planned.
The Ocean Cleanup aims to use long-distance floating booms that act like coastlines to gather plastic bag, bottles and other waste as it drifts on or near the surface of the water while allowing sea life to pass underneath.
The Ocean Cleanup, founded by Dutch university dropout Boyan Slat, announced that testing of the first system will start off the US West coast by the end of the year and barriers will be shipped to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch between California and Hawaii in the first half of 2018, two years ahead of the organization's earlier schedule.
Floating barriers concentrate the plastic garbage at a central point where it can be fished out of the water and shipped back to dry land for recycling.
The organization discovered that the barriers are more efficient if they are allowed to slowly drift instead of anchoring them to the sea bed.
Free-floating barriers begin to act like the plastic they aim to snare, so 'the cleanup systems will automatically gravitate to those places where most plastic is,'
HOW IT WORKS
The Ocean Clean up estimates that their passive ocean cleaning method would remove half the Great Pacific Garbage Patch - a huge area in the ocean where swirling currents concentrate trash - in 5 years, at the fraction of the cost of traditional methods such as vessels and nets.
The system uses floating hard-walled barriers made of a durable, recyclable material.
Together with a solid screen to catch debris beneath the surface, the system uses currents to passively ensnare waves of garbage
It's already been tested in Dutch lakes and off the coast of the Netherlands in the North Sea.
Barriers will be shipped to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch between California and Hawaii in the first half of 2018, two years ahead of the organization's earlier schedule.
The Ocean Cleanup
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch
The Ocean Cleanup aims to use long-distance floating booms that act like coastlines to gather plastic bag, bottles and other waste as it drifts on or near the surface of the water while allowing sea life to pass underneath.
The Ocean Cleanup, founded by Dutch university dropout Boyan Slat, announced that testing of the first system will start off the US West coast by the end of the year and barriers will be shipped to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch between California and Hawaii in the first half of 2018, two years ahead of the organization's earlier schedule.
Floating barriers concentrate the plastic garbage at a central point where it can be fished out of the water and shipped back to dry land for recycling.
The organization discovered that the barriers are more efficient if they are allowed to slowly drift instead of anchoring them to the sea bed.
Free-floating barriers begin to act like the plastic they aim to snare, so 'the cleanup systems will automatically gravitate to those places where most plastic is,'
HOW IT WORKS
The Ocean Clean up estimates that their passive ocean cleaning method would remove half the Great Pacific Garbage Patch - a huge area in the ocean where swirling currents concentrate trash - in 5 years, at the fraction of the cost of traditional methods such as vessels and nets.
The system uses floating hard-walled barriers made of a durable, recyclable material.
Together with a solid screen to catch debris beneath the surface, the system uses currents to passively ensnare waves of garbage
It's already been tested in Dutch lakes and off the coast of the Netherlands in the North Sea.
Barriers will be shipped to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch between California and Hawaii in the first half of 2018, two years ahead of the organization's earlier schedule.
The Ocean Cleanup
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch
