It’s been six years since we launched the world’s first cleanup system from San Francisco to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. A lot has happened since then. ...
This looks like a very interesting project but I’m not sure I understand how the net works so it catches only plastics and not fish. Or are fish caught as well in this process?
Thank you for pointing me towards the right direction, so I found the following link:
Precise, gentle and efficient - The cleanup system has been specially designed and tailored for this purpose. It is four meters deep and designed as a funnel with an opening at the bottom to ensure that fish and other marine life are not trapped when trawling for marine plastic.
This looks like a very interesting project but I’m not sure I understand how the net works so it catches only plastics and not fish. Or are fish caught as well in this process?
It’s a surface level net basically
Thank you for pointing me towards the right direction, so I found the following link: