Paul Balsom
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Next came The Interceptor - a robot for rivers. A solar-powered, fully automated catamaran that parks in rivers and eats trash before it reaches the sea. It can collect up to 50,000 kg of waste per day. Because 1,000 rivers are responsible for 80% of all ocean plastic.
Paul Balsom37,944 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr
How did this happen? It starts on land. Every year, over 11M metric tons of plastic enter the ocean. Rivers, wind, and storms carry waste into the sea, where ocean currents trap it in rotating systems called gyres. The North Pacific Gyre is the largest and most polluted.
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The Ocean Cleanup has deployed U-shaped systems in the Pacific that passively collect plastic using ocean currents. Their Interceptor 007 is on pace to extract thousands of tons of waste. To date, they’ve removed over 8M Kgs of plastic from the ocean and rivers.
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Here’s the hard truth: Plastic never fully disappears. Even if we stopped all ocean dumping today, the existing waste would remain for centuries. Which is why cleanup must go hand-in-hand with prevention: Less production, smarter materials, and global cooperation.
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