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00 technology explain | system clean oceans

00 technology explain | system clean oceans

1.8 trillion pieces of plastic float at thesurface of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.Here, The Ocean Cleanup is deploying the world’s first technological solution to this growing problem.The principle behind it is simple: createa coastline where there are none...concentrate the plastic… and take it out.

The system consists of a 600-meter-long floater and a 3-meter-deep skirt attached below.The floater provides buoyancy to the system...and prevents plastic from flowing over it,while the skirt prevents smaller particles from escaping underneath.As the impenetrable skirt creates a downward flow, marine life can safely pass beneath it.Here is how the system catches plastic:The system takes advantage of three natural oceanic forces: wind, waves, and currents.Both the plastic and system are being carried by the current.However, wind and waves propel the system only, as the floater partly sticks above the surface,while plastic is primarily just beneath it.

The system thus moves faster than the plastic, allowing the plastic to be captured.The skirt extends deeper in the middle ofthe system than on the outer edges.As the current applies pressure on the skirt, the system naturally adopts a U-shapewhich enables it to concentrate plastic in its center, like a funnel.The drag generated by the skirt also actsas a stabilizing force allowing the systemto re-orient itself when the wind changesdirection.And because the system - like the plastic– is free floating, it automatically driftsto the areas with the highest plastic concentration.Fitted with solar-powered lights, anti-collision systems, cameras, sensors and satellite antennas,the system actively communicates its position at all times and continuously gathers performance data.Periodically, a support vessel comes by to take out the concentrated plasticlike a garbage truck of the ocean.The plastic is then transported to land, recycled, and made into durable products.This is the first of a fleet of 60 systems.Once deployed, the fleet is expected to cleanup 50% of the Great Pacific Garbage Patchevery 5 years.


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