The Marina Trash Skimmer collects trash and removes oil and floating debris from the surface of the water. It works with the natural currents of the installation sites, tides and prevailing winds to collect trash and oil sheen into one easy-to-access location, for quick removal and disposal.
The Versi-Cat’s function is the collection of litter and debris from the water surface into a removable basket, which can be lifted and tipped directly into a skip or shoreside receptacle for disposal. The design allows floatables as well as semi-submerged debris to collect between the hulls.
The Aquatic-skimmers are retrieval vessels for floating trash and debris for use in all bodies of water, including ports, harbors and marinas. They collect trash in their storage conveyors, transport the cargo to an off-loading point and discharge it into a suitable container.
The Manta is a plastic-eating catamaran that collects trash on an industrial scale, up to 3 tons of ocean garbage per hour. It has nets along the stern to collect plastic and garbage, along with sustainable energy sources like solar panels and wind turbines to power the onboard collection and recycling center.
Researchers in Czech Republic are developing microscopic robots made of a material that is propelled forward when exposed to sunlight. When material comes into contact with microplastic, it rapidly speeds up the degradation that happens naturally in the sun. The technology is still in development, and it has to be made sure that the robots can also break down correctly themselves.
The Clean Sea Solution, in partnership with Oslo, has come up with a system to combat plastic pollution in the sea. The Aqua Drone is an autonomous drone, which “sweeps” the water and collects waste and then takes it to a set point on the coast.
Cleawat is a water cleaning vessel that cleans up garbage and microplastics from waterways, by the utilization of the water flow. By regulating the flow, the booms in front of the vessel collect waste that ends up on the vessel’s conveyor and is further sorted into trash. The device can collect up to half a millimeter-sized particles.
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Industrial Design student Elie Ahvovi has developed the Marine Drone. It’s capable of patrolling the ocean and capuring plastic waste. It uses a signal to scare aquatic life away, so it only takes trash. The drone takes its catch back to a mothership, where it can deposit te waste.
The Eco-Mobile Robot is developed to clean up the ocean on a big scale. The floating deck, lookling like an oil platform, can suck up trash. Connected to sattelites, they can be monitored and controlled.
The company Sewer is working on a ambitious plan: placing an enormous drainage hole in the middle of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This hole, with a diamter of 550 meter and a depth of 300 meter, will use five layers of filters to seperate and capture trash from water.
