Plastic waist cleanup18

Interceptor 001 is the first system developed by The Ocean Cleanup to prevent plastic waste from entering the ocean. Stationed in Cengkareng drain, Jakarta, the system is environmentally friendly and 100% solar-powered, with onboard lithium-ion batteries that enable it to operate day and night without any noise or exhaust fumes. The system helps to extract plastic from rivers, and prevents the waste, which will be sorted, from going to the ocean. The Ocean Cleanup develops advanced technologies to rid the worldâs oceans of plastic. Founded in 2013 by Boyan Slat. The foundation is headquartered in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Instead of going after plastic debris with vessels and nets â" which would take many thousands of years and billions of dollars to complete â" The Ocean Cleanup plans to deploy a fleet of long floating barriers that act like an artificial coastline, enabling the winds, waves, and currents to passively catch and concentrate the plastic. Once fully operational, the full fleet of passive collection systems is expected to remove 50% of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch every five yearsâ time. After years of exploration expeditions, scale model testing and the deployment of prototypes in the North Sea, the first ocean clearance systems were deployed in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in 2018 and 2019. As soon as The Ocean Cleanup can start a large-scale clean-up, it is planned to harvest more than 12,000,000 kg of plastic in its first year of operation; enough to clean up half of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch every 5 years. The Ocean Cleanup is working with partners to design processes to convert recovered ocean plastic into valuable raw materials and sustainable products.