The Ocean Cleanup: Design breakthrough halves cleanup time

The Ocean Cleanup will start extracting plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch within the next 12 months. The design of the system has been improved to increase the efficiency.
The main idea is to let the ocean currents do the work. An installation of U-shaped screens channels floating plastic to a central point. The concentrated plastic can then be extracted and shipped to shore for recycling. The improvements announced involve the introduction of a mobile or drifting system. Rather than fixing the floating screens to the seabed at great depths, sea anchors will be applied to ensure the floating screens move slower than the plastic (Press Release The Ocean Cleanup, 11 May 2017).
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