With gigantic hoses, a Team on the sea collects in front of the California coastal plastic waste. But apparently, the tentacle does not work as hoped.
24-year-old Initiator Boyan Slat is still optimistic. We are on the verge of a breakthrough, he says in a Video of his project at the end of November. The System is now arrived 2000 kilometres off the California coast in the sea. Many of the problems had been solved, now you’ll also get the current Problem in the handle.
The Dutchman Boyan Slat is the Initiator of the “Ocean Cleanup”
In the same Video, the technical Director of the project, but admits that there are difficulties. The plastic waste escaping to the rest of the body from the 600-metre-long tentacle, says Arjen Tjaellema: “basically, the system works the way we want to. The plastic drives in the System, we observe, however, that it drifts out again. Our Team is currently investigating why this is happening and why. This happens not always.”
Initiator Bojan Slat wrote in a Blog entry recently that the error can have several causes: strong Wind, or the tentacle of concern, even for such strong waves that he was driving the plastic again and again away from you.
In the 600-Meter-long tentacle is a three-Meter-deep curtain is hanging. The idea is that the tentacle is half-lay in a circle around the plastic waste that drives at this point in the Pacific, particularly common in the sea. Because the Collection of garbage is not working properly, you want to change now the configuration of the system. The tentacle should go into the width. Technology-in-chief Tjaellma: “at The time we try, the span of the system extend. So it is driven more by the Wind and pushes the tube more quickly through the water.
tentacle fished only on the surface
at the beginning of September had been pulled the tentacle from San Francisco in the Pacific ocean. The goal is to prove that the System can actually collect plastic waste. Critics say, however, that the system collect only the garbage that swim on the surface of the sea. Everything driving deeper than three meters in the sea, will not be captured. Even plastic parts that are smaller than a centimeter, could not collect the plant .
the fight against plastic waste: cleaning action in the Pacific starts, 09.09.2018 Atlas |USA |San Francisco
