How floating garbage ‘seabins’ can clean up our dying oceans
Source: https://theprint.in/environment/how-floating-garbage-seabins-can-clean-up-our-dying-oceans/1151786/
Author: Pooja Chhabria
The World Economic Forum’s Global Plastic Action Partnership is driving national solutions for a plastics circular economy with a broader aim to eradicate plastic pollution. Poonam Watine, Knowledge Specialist at the Global Plastic Action Partnership, believe projects like the Seabin can prove to be a significant step in the right direction. “Innovative solutions are crucial to mitigate and prevent plastic pollution,” she says. Plastic Fischer, for instance, utilises a low-tech and low-cost device called “TrashBoom” – a floating barrage stretched across a river to capture plastic waste as the current takes it downstream. The team at Plastic Fischer joined forces with the national army in Bandung, Indonesia, to develop and test the TrashBoom on one of the world’s most polluted rivers. Another company bringing an innovative mindset to the problem of ocean plastic is Finland’s RiverRecycle. The business aims to install 500 cleaning and recycling points on the rivers that discharge the most plastic pollution into the ocean. Their projects include a facility on the Mithi River in Mumbai, India.