US youth initiative to eliminate plastic waste from oceans
An American youth has started working to free the world's oceans from plastic waste. For this, he has built a solar-powered boat, which collects plastic and other garbage from rivers and canals before it falls into the sea.
Plastic bottles and other plastic litter are often seen on beaches and oceans around the world. Most of it falls into the sea from various canals and rivers. The beach of Los Angeles in the United States is no exception. The Belluna Canal runs between the popular Marina del Rey and Playa del Rey beaches here. Once clean water flowed through the canal throughout the year, it has become polluted and has now become a wasteland of abandoned plastic waste.
However, a 28-year-old boy named Boan Slatt has taken the initiative to prevent plastic waste from reaching the nearby sea through the Belluna canal. He runs an NGO called Ocean Cleanup. In his initiative, a special type of watercraft has been developed, which collects plastic waste floating in the river or canal water.
The 73-foot-long trash interceptor Zero Zero Seven is a solar-powered vessel. It has six bins for collecting plastic and other garbage. Where up to 10 thousand kg of plastic waste can be kept. First, the plastic waste is dragged through a floating net in front of the vessel's conveyor belt. These belts pull the trash out of the water and into the trash bins.
When Bayan was sixteen, he went scuba diving in Greece and found that he was surrounded by more plastic than fish. This is what motivated him to take this initiative.
Boan Sloat said, '80% of the plastic waste floating in the world's oceans enters the sea via rivers. So if these plastics can be collected before they fall into the sea, then we can save the world's oceans from plastic pollution.
Ocean Cleanup was founded in 2013 with the goal of ridding the world's oceans of floating plastic waste by 2040. Their Trash Interceptor is currently running as a pilot project in Los Angeles.
Source: The Ocean Cleanup
