And here's a probable savior; Amid plastic chaos dominating nature, a floating device cleans up plastic trash from oceans

New Delhi, October 07: While plastics have secretly managed to create a chaos all over the globe, destroying the ecosystems abide, a Netherlands based nonprofit, the Ocean Cleanup has oved up inventing a huge trash-collecting system designed to clean up plastic floating in the oceans.

 

"Today, I am very proud to share with you that we are now catching plastics. Trash-collecting system designed to clean up plastic floating in the Pacific Ocean is finally picking up plastic", Ocean Cleanup founder and CEO Boyan Slat said on twitter in Rotterdam.

 

 

The nonprofit further claimed that its latest prototype was able to capture and hold debris ranging in size from huge, abandoned fishing gear, known as ghost nets, to tiny microplastics as small as 1 millimeter.

 

The Ocean Cleanup system is a U-shaped barrier with a net-like skirt that hangs below the surface of the water. It moves with the current and collects faster moving plastics as they float by where fish and other animals will be able to swim beneath it. "Ocean Cleanup plans to build a fleet of these devices, and predicts it will be able to reduce the size of the patch by half every five years", the statement read.

"We now have a self-contained system in the great pacific garbage patch that is using the natural forces of the ocean to passively catch and concentrate plastics, thereby confirming the most important principal behind the ocean cleanup system," Slat said adding that there still were some hurdles to overcome before they could scale up the system.

 

"The final system will need to be able to survive for years in the difficult ocean conditions and be able to hold the plastic for months between pickups, in order for the plan to be financially viable", Slat signed off at a forum in Rotterdam.