"Our team is working hard to get the Trashfence operational as soon as possible."īREAKING: we are now testing our Interceptor Trashfence in Guatemala's Rio Motagua Basin home to what we believe to be the world's most polluting river. Initial tests showed that it could catch a large amount of trash, but the structure took a severe beating in the flood. The Trashfence is still an experimental system and not yet fully operational. Its longer-term goal is to rid all oceans of 90 per cent of floating plastic by 2040. Once the water level comes down, excavators and dump trucks remove the intercepted waste ready for the next flash flood and the accompanying trash tsunami," the company said. The Ocean Cleanup aims to remove 50 per cent of the GPGP every five years. When flash floods bring the trash washing down, the fence intercepts it and retains it in place. A giant Trashfence is erected on a dry river bed. They based the Trashfence on technology for avalanche and rockfall protection, adapting it to be applied to flows of waste coming down a river. The Interceptor Trashfence was explicitly designed for the Rio Motagua after the Ocean Cleanup researchers discovered that the immense volumes of trash quickly overpowered their existing solutions. "Based on this number, this one river alone is responsible for an estimated 2% of global plastic emissions into the ocean."
OCEAN CLEANUP TRIAL
A trial run with the Interceptor Trashfence is currently happening in the Rio Motagua in Guatemala - the heaviest polluting river in the world, t he company said.Īn estimated 20,000 tons of plastic flow through the Rio Motagua into the Caribbean Sea annually. This program focuses on environmental education, environmental activities, and sustainability. The audio for this story was produced by Dana Cronin and edited by Natalie Winston.Boyan Slat's Ocean Cleanup is testing new technology to intercept plastic waste before it washes into the ocean. One earth, our home - Lets prevent global warming. In this vision, one he has held since his teens, support vessels would act like ocean garbage trucks ships would carry the plastics back to land, where they would be processed, recycled, and reused - not dumped back into the ocean. The Ocean Cleanup sunglasses made with System 001/B catch all now have new owners and are funding the cleanup of 500,000 football fields worth of ocean. If the project succeeds, Slat's vision is to deploy a fleet of 60 more devices, projected to remove half of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch's plastic within five years. His team hopes to make the system fully operational sometime this year.
OCEAN CLEANUP PATCH
"I'm confident that the team will be able to design appropriate solutions for this and that we'll have the system back in the patch in a few months from now." "Considering the things we have been able to prove in the past few months and considering the problems that we have faced, they seem quite solvable," he said. The other issue with the beta tester, called System 001, is that last week, a 60-feet-long end section broke off.īoyan Slat walks in front of his first prototype ocean cleanup device on June 23, 2016. It orients itself in the wind and it catches and concentrates plastic, sort of.īut as Slat, now 24, recently discovered with the beta tester for his design, plastic occasionally drifts out of its U-shaped funnel. It travels with wind and wave propulsion, like a U-shaped Pac-Man hungry for plastic. Invented by Boyan Slat when he was just 17, the barrier has so far done some of what it was designed to accomplish. Made of connected plastic pipes, the barrier was meant to catch and clean-up the plastic. In September, a 2,000-foot-long floating barrier, shaped like a U, was dispatched to the Great Pacific garbage patch between Hawaii and California, where roughly 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic have formed a floating field of debris roughly twice the size of Texas. The path to innovation is not always a smooth, straight line. Ocean Cleanup's System 001 was towed out of the San Francisco Bay on Sept.
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