Solar Barges: Solution to Ocean Pollution?

Monday 2nd of March 2020

Solar Barges: Solution to Ocean Pollution?

Inspired when he was 16, Dutchman called Boyan Slat started The Ocean Cleanup project and create a passive floating device that collects plastic. But recently, he created these solar-powered barges to fish the plastic out of the rivers and prevent it from getting into the oceans.

The nonprofit Ocean Cleanup Project managed to collect two shipping containers full of trash from the area over the years. But Boyan figured he’d rather turn to the source than try to solve the problem by “treating the symptoms”.

The Ocean Cleanup’s latest invention the “Inceptor” was is a solar-powered barge, created specifically to suck river debris into dumpsters and then bring it onshore for recycling.

One such barge can collect up to 110 tons of garbage that would otherwise get into the ocean waters every single day and therefore reduce the amount of waste that actually reaches the oceans drastically.