A FLOTILLA OF PLASTIC-EATING OCEAN CLEANUP ROBOT BOATS IS COMING?
Source: https://www.fastcompany.com/
Ocean-cleaning vessels are being developed that build on the trawl-and-capture concept but don’t burn fossil fuels. Meet FRED, for instance – the Floating Robot for Eliminating Debris. FRED runs on solar power, trapping pieces of plastic as small as 5 mm. (That’s 0.2 inches, for those in the U.S.) Even celebrities are getting in on the action. Coldplay sponsored a similar plastic collection robot boat this year, which was deployed to Malaysia where it’s collecting up to 110 tons of trash each day.