2024-08-25 10:26:32
An estimated 15 billion kilograms of plastic trash is dumped into the oceans every year, CNN reported. This is equivalent to dumping two truckloads of garbage into the ocean every minute, according to the US non-profit organization Oceana. For this reason, a company has created robot boats adapted to cleaning water pools.
“We have garbage trucks for the land. Why don’t we have something to clean the water,” Siddhant Gupta, co-founder of marine technology startup Clearbot, told CNN.
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The self-driving boats are powered by solar energy and can absorb around 80 kilograms of waste per hour. Discarded plastic water bottles, juice boxes and cartons pass through a slot in the front of the boat and move up a conveyor belt. A camera captured the haul before the trash was deposited in the center of the boat, NOVA writes.
Clearbot is not the only company using technology to improve the aquatic environment. Entrepreneurs, academics and NGOs around the world are racing to develop innovations ranging from automated floating trash cans to fish-like underwater drones.