Engineering Student Claims his invention will clean up our oceans in five years.
So today's post is about thanking 19 year old, Boyan Slat.
As the article states:
A Dutch teenager has invented a device that he claims could clean up some 20 billion tonnes of
plastic waste from the world's oceans.
Boyan
Slat, 19, came up with the idea of a series of floating booms and
processing platforms designed to collect floating plastic rubbish.
The
'ocean cleanup' concept is designed to capture the floating plastic but
allow life like fish and plankton to pass through unharmed, while
saving the waste materials to be recycled.
How does it work?
The Ocean Cleanup Array is an anchored network of floating booms and processing platforms will span the radius of a gyre.
The booms act as giant funnels where the angle of the booms effectively 'suck' rubbish in.
The debris enters the platforms, where it will be filtered out of the water and eventually stored in containers until collected for recycling on land.
One of the most significant advantages of using booms instead of nets is that marine life cannot be caught in them.
Furthermore, because the transport of plastic along the booms is driven by the currents, it’s slow enough for organisms to escape...
The booms act as giant funnels where the angle of the booms effectively 'suck' rubbish in.
The debris enters the platforms, where it will be filtered out of the water and eventually stored in containers until collected for recycling on land.
One of the most significant advantages of using booms instead of nets is that marine life cannot be caught in them.
Furthermore, because the transport of plastic along the booms is driven by the currents, it’s slow enough for organisms to escape...
No comments:
Post a Comment