New Ocean Plastic Cleanup Technology
Parachute-Like Device Part of Barrier System That Captures Plastic Pollution Source: Ocean Cleanup Pacific Garbage Patch Success The Ocean Cleanup is a foundation, headquartered in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, that develops advanced systems to rid the world's oceans of plastics. They just reported the successful use of parachute-like devices as part of their Ocean Project System 001B in the Pacific's so-called Garbage Patch to aggressively capture ocean plastic pollution and it worked brilliantly. Parachute-Like Devices Attached to Barrier Worked Beautifully The Pacific Garbage Patch, loaded with plastic pollution that gets worse environmentally daily, is three times the size of France and twice the size of Texas. Floating plastic is light, fast moving and difficult to contain on the ocean long enough for humans to recover it. By attaching the parachute-like device to the organization's barrier, the system slowed down the fast moving plastic enough to...