It hasn’t been totally smooth sailing, but The Ocean Cleanup is now calling an end to a first effective objective to gather plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, today revealing off the pile of trash on the shores of Vancouver. The company now prepares to repurpose the recuperated rubbish as plastic items, with the profits to be funneled back into its clean-up operations, and preparations are currently underway for its second-generation system.
The Ocean Cleanup first took to the Great Pacific Garbage Spot in October last year with the intent of collecting plastic waste with its big floating booms.
Ocean Cleanup
The first correct foray into passive collection of ocean trash is now total, with the group carrying the fruits of its labor back to base.
Recycling the plastic it recuperated for use in plastic products was always part of the group’s vision, and today it has actually broadened a little on these strategies. It states this will be the first time that products will be made entirely out of ocean plastics, so the production process is most likely to be challenging.
Ocean Cleanup
” Welcoming the first catch of plastic on land is the moment we have been looking forward to for years,” says Ocean Cleanup CEO Boyan Slat.
The Ocean Clean-up says the revenues from these items will be utilized to fund its ongoing cleanup operations.
Source: The Ocean Clean-up