Ocean cleanup Patch#
The Ocean Cleanup The Ocean Cleanup sunglasses made with recycled plastic certified from The Great Pacific Garbage Patch The foundation hopes to inspire others to do the same, highlighting that plastic is not a bad material in itself – it just must be used in a responsible way. The Ocean Cleanup Granulate created from the catch from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the base material for The Ocean Cleanup sunglassesįrom the granulate, they have launched their first product – sunglasses. The result is the creation of a new material or granulate. Just like the system which captured it, the ocean plastic was subjected to a lot of experimentation. In fact, there was doubt whether it could be recycled at all due to its complex structure after so much exposure. However, recycling this kind of plastic has never been done before – it has travelled thousands of miles by sea and has been floating around for many years, weathered and broken down by the sun, wind and sea. The foundation is recycling the plastic garbage into sustainable products for sale and using 100% of the proceeds to fund future ocean cleaning. Plastic debris from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch stored in big bags before transportationĪfter several years of development, The Ocean Cleanup have found a way of turning the pollution of yesterday into the cleanup of tomorrow. Though recovering mountains of trash from the oceans creates new challenges – what to do with it all? There were still several issues to be ironed out but nevertheless, they had made significant progress enabling them to move to the next stage of development. It was capturing and retaining debris from microscopic plastic fragments to giant fishing nets. Within six months they had deployed a new version of the system, and before too long, it became clear that this one would work better. Slat and his team had to go back to the drawing board. Plastic captured by System 001/B in October 2019 Problems culminated in December 2018, when Wilson broke in two and had to be towed to shore for repairs. And while the cleaning system seemed to do the trick – some 2,000 kg of plastics were captured during the first two months of operation – a lot of the garbage also drifted back out. There were high hopes for the first version of the system, also known as Wilson. After a long and difficult journey, he and his foundation, The Ocean Cleanup, are now starting to see the fruits of their efforts. The basic idea is to let the forces of nature collect the plastic and bring it to a floating barrier, where it becomes sufficiently concentrated to be extracted onto a ship.
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Ocean cleanup trial#
Back in the Netherlands, hundreds of scale model tests were carried out a prototype deployed in the North Sea and after years of experimentation, the world’s first ocean cleanup trial was launched from San Francisco Bay in September 2018.
Together with a team of scientists, he set up an expedition to the Patch to map the problem, using 30 boats, this was later followed by an aerial study by an aircraft. Through crowd funding he was able to raise the money he needed to get the idea off the ground. Aged just 18years old, Boyan Slat first presented his idea during a Ted Talk in 2012, and it quickly went viral. However, eight years ago, a Dutch teenager decided he would take on the challenge. The Ocean Cleanup The Great Pacific Garbage Patch No-one actually “owns” the problem, and for decades it has just continued to grow. Currently three times the size of France, it is floating around in international waters, 1,000 miles off the nearest shoreline, in no-man’s land. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the largest accumulation of trash in the world.
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