Source: USA Today
An organization aimed to decrease garbage pollution in oceans is employing new technological strategies to reduce the 5 trillion pieces of litter in the sea.
The Ocean Cleanup is using a system of floating screens that act as a coastline in order to capture plastic debris in the oceanic region between Hawaii and California.
While the floating screens are only a prototype, CEO and founder of Ocean Cleanup, Boyan Slat, explains the design will allow trash to be efficiently collected and stored before it is recycled on land.
“Once a month, a vessel comes and basically goes from cleanup system to cleanup system like a garbage truck of the ocean,” Slat explained of the prototype.
The area between Hawaii and California, labeled by scientists as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, could become 50 percent cleaner in five years due to the introduction of the screens, projected Slat.
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