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Seabin is a floating rubbish bin that collects garbage from the sea. It's designed to be near ports, marinas, and yacht clubs. Rubbish and debris are brought into the bin thanks to a pump which ...
An estimated 100,000 tons of floating plastic polluting 620,000 square miles of the Pacific is at risk of infecting the food chain. But experts are fighting back... with a little help from ...
The ocean VACUUM that sucks rubbish and oil from waterways: £2,500 'Seabins' trap floating debris found along coastlines. Seabin has been invented by two surfers from Perth, Australia ...
A study of plastic trash hauled out of the Pacific Ocean found that most of it had been colonized by coastal life that was thriving right next to species that normally live in the open sea.
The Pacific Ocean is being treated like a giant dumpster — and it's starting to look like one, too. A "floating" island of trash dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) now stretches ...
The Ocean Cleanup’s goals are laudable, but the nonprofit faces challenges. For one, the company’s first garbage collector, a 2,000-foot buoy-and-skirt invention nicknamed Wilson, broke in two.
The patch, which is floating between Hawaii and California, contains 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic weighing more than 80,000 metric tons. That’s equivalent to 250 pieces of debris for every ...
A study of plastic trash hauled out of the Pacific Ocean found that most of it had been colonized by coastal life that was thriving right next to species that normally live in the open sea.
To combat the plastics and other trash piling up in the ocean, Seabin Project is working to install hundreds of its floating garbage cans at marinas and ports around the world.
The Ocean Cleanup Interceptors were first announced by founder and CEO Boyan Slat in 2019. The trash Interceptors are moored to river beds and use river current to snag debris floating on the surface.
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 Netherlands-based nonprofit the Ocean ...
Researchers found that small sea creatures exist in equal number with pieces of plastic in parts of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which could have implications for cleaning up ocean pollution ...