It's massive, it's rubber and it cleans the sea

• Autores: Joshua Howgego
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3080, 2016, pág. 12
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • If people see a string of huge rubber sausages afloat in the North Sea, they're not hallucinating. It's all part of an audacious plan to finally start pulling plastic waste out of the sea. There are at least 244,000 tonnes of plastic floating in the oceans. Vast gyres of the stuff are circulating in the mid-Pacific, and these are now the target of the Ocean Cleanup project, based in Delft, the Netherlands. Its goal is to install a 100-kilometer-long V-shaped boom in the middle of the Pacific, to collect plastic lapping against it. Wave action pushes the waste towards the V's apex, where it can be collected and sent for recycling.