Boyan Slat’s Ocean Clean-Up. From outer space earth is a dreamy and beautiful sapphire sphere with two thirds of her surface covered by vast oceans. The Seabin team have acknowledged that technology alone will not save our oceans and have set up a business model where 50 per cent of their activities are for profit and 50 per cent not for profit through the Australian registered Seabin Foundation. It’s a floating rubbish bin (the clue’s in the name), designed for ports and marinas. The ocean is a big part of our world. Much love Paul. Plastic in oceans has emerged as a major environmental threat in recent years, as the scale of the problem has become clearer. "Today, I am very proud to share with you that we are now catching plastics," Ocean Cleanup founder and CEO Boyan Slat said at a news conference in Rotterdam. We\u2019ve already seen bans on single-use plastic come into effect in some countries, but that\u2019s not the only initiative tack","url":"https:\/\/www.gizmodo.com.au\/2018\/11\/5-innovations-saving-oceans-from-plastic-pollution\/","img":"https:\/\/www.gizmodo.com.au\/content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/plastic-in-ocean.jpg","category":"Online","published_at":1543251659,"updated_at":1600705396,"kind":"article"},"ad_location":"mrec-content-mobile","targeting":{"pos":"2"},"provider":"google-dfp","element_id":"ad-slot-mrec-content-mobile-4112977563","js_callback":"contentAds"} ); All times are ET. By Azriel ReShel on Saturday March 19th, 2016. if (typeof siteads.queue !== 'undefined') { Nearly half of this plastic is used once and then thrown away, with a third of it ending up in our oceans. The system, spanning 2000 metres, will be the longest floating structure ever deployed in the ocean and will be operational for at least two years. And one of the areas, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a vast semi-dissolved island of waste twice the size of France, filled with plastic that was thrown away. “Taking care of the world’s ocean garbage problem is one of the largest environmental challenges mankind faces today. Up until his invention, the leading proposal to clean up the ocean’s trash, was to send out big ships to troll for pieces of plastic. While cleaning up solutions are well underway, the answer to this trash problem, is threefold, focusing on: extraction or cleaning up the plastic, prevention of further pollution and interception, or spin off technologies for rivers to prevent more plastic from entering the oceans. So he walks to school, First-time jobless claims drop to 787,000, The future of renewable energy could look very different under Biden, Watch the country's first firefighting robot in action, Here's what you need to know about the iPhone 12, How this former QAnon believer escaped the virtual cult. Water is sucked into the the device, where debris as small as 2mm is caught in a filter, before pumping clean water back into the sea. 1. Standard & Poor's and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. The Seabin catches floating plastic bottles and other plastics, and even paper, fuel, oils and detergent. Their passion has led to the creation of the Seabin, an automated rubbish bin for marina docks. Up until this point, the only idea many could come up with was to send out huge trips to look for pieces of plastic. Guthrie to Trump: You're the President, you're not some crazy uncle! We’ve already seen bans on single-use plastic come into effect in some countries, but that’s not the only initiative tackling this pollution. US economy grew in Q3 but the crisis isn't over. It’s important to mention that plastic remains an incredibly useful material, but steps can be taken to improve its production and subsequent disposal. All content of the Dow Jones branded indices Copyright S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC 2018 and/or its affiliates. }. All rights reserved. The SeaVax is a solar and wind-powered, self-driving ship that sucks up plastic, but has special sensors to detect the rubbish and sonar technology that protects marine and bird life. Of course, you don’t actually have to eat the packaging, but the point is that it is plastic-free and biodegradable. The fishing industry is a major contributor, with equipment and nets killing trapped animals and adding to plastic piles. Brought to you by HP. He said the final system will need to be able to survive for years in the difficult ocean conditions and be able to hold the plastic for months between pickups, in order for the plan to be financially viable. A trio of British friends has invented a ship called the SeaVax that can suck up to 22 million kgs of plastic a year, much like a giant ocean vacuum cleaner. At this rate, there will be more plastic than fish in the world’s oceans by 2050. "We now have a self-contained system in the great pacific garbage patch that is using the natural forces of the ocean to passively catch and concentrate plastics, thereby confirming the most important principal behind the ocean cleanup system," Slat said. With 354 Seabins currently in the water, this means 1.3 tonnes of marine litter is being removed every day using this technology, a step in the right direction when you consider the impact that 1000 or even 10,000 units can have by ensuring a cleaner future for everyone. The Ocean Cleanup's System 001/B collects and holds plastic until a ship can collect it. All rights reserved. Where Seabin focuses on enclosed ocean areas, The Ocean Cleanup’s technology aims to tackle a huge patch of accumulated plastic floating between Hawaii and California. We\u2019ve already seen bans on single-use plastic come into effect in some countries, but that\u2019s not the only initiative tack","url":"https:\/\/www.gizmodo.com.au\/2018\/11\/5-innovations-saving-oceans-from-plastic-pollution\/","img":"https:\/\/www.gizmodo.com.au\/content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/plastic-in-ocean.jpg","category":"Online","published_at":1543251659,"updated_at":1600705396,"kind":"article"},"ad_location":"mrec-content-mobile","targeting":{"pos":"1"},"provider":"google-dfp","element_id":"ad-slot-mrec-content-mobile-1240851980","js_callback":"contentAds"} ); Most stock quote data provided by BATS. Designed by 20- year-old Dutch entrepreneur Boyan Slat, the system will passively clean up plastic pollution from the world’s oceans. But Slat’s enterprising system reduces the theoretical cleanup time from millennia to mere years, through utilizing a system driven by ocean currents, whereby the plastic concentrates itself in a collection zone. That includes closed-loop recycling, where a company uses the latest tech to collect waste from its products post-consumer and recycle it into new products. This deployment will enable us to study the system’s efficiency and durability over time. Officials launched the new System 001/B in June and after some more trial and error, they got things working. 20 year old Dutch entrepreneur Boyan Slat is one person who has realised that enough is enough. Morningstar: Copyright 2018 Morningstar, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Disclaimer. The science and tech communities have also been collaborating with governments and big business on innovative solutions to stop the eight million tonnes of plastic that is dumped into oceans every year. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is twice the size of Texas, with 1.8 trillion plastic pieces. Plastic waste and pollution are some of the biggest threats facing the world’s oceans and damaging marine life, but thanks to the latest advances in technology new gadgets are now being produced to help combat this environmental issue.We look at the latest tech gadgets designed to cleanup the oceans and protect our valuable ecosystems. By subscribing you agree to our Terms of Use and He has created a system that passively helps to clean up plastic pollution from the world’s oceans. It essentially captures plastic in one place, allowing it to be easily collected every few months. Sustainability is at the heart of its journey, fuelling innovation and growth for communities and businesses around the world. Chicago Mercantile Association: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. and its licensors. Boyan Slat, the CEO and founder of The Ocean Cleanup, and an aerospace engineering student, invented the system when he was just 16, after a family diving holiday off the coast of Greece where he witnessed the shocking problem of plastic polluting our oceans and thought: “why don’t we just clean it up.”. You and I, we live on the Blue Planet. Enter your email below. In Australia, companies like Close the Loop are helping businesses achieve sustainability goals including zero waste to landfill, by recovering and re-using resources, ultimately reducing the amount of plastic at risk of entering oceans. When you cast it into the ocean … it does not go away” – Sir David Attenborough. Not only will this first cleanup array contribute to cleaner waters and coasts but it simultaneously is an essential step towards our goal of cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The robotic vacuum ship could cleanse our oceans and protect the marine creatures that are dying because of our human plastic frenzy. A huge trash-collecting system designed to clean up plastic floating in the Pacific Ocean is finally picking up plastic, its inventor announced Wednesday. The $US5000 Seabin runs on just $2 of power per day and each Seabin captures an average of 3.9kg per day – or 1.4 tonnes per year. Writer, Editor, Yoga Teacher & Healing Facilitator. At current rates, it’s predicted that there will be ten times more plastic in our oceans by 2020, and more plastic than fish by 2050, meaning it’s never been more important to work towards a global fix.
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