To catch as much garbage as possible, the net will need to be emptied every four to six weeks. As it collects debris, System 001 will also be able to collect data on climate and wave patterns.

Crevoshay said their first trash boom, as the net is called, has caught 133,000 pounds of waste over two years. About 93% of it, she said, is plastic and tires. “We sort it.

Removing 20,000 pounds of trash is a feat, but only addresses a small piece of the problem. A 2018 study estimated that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch contains roughly 79,000 tons of plastic. The ...

The Clean River Project — a volunteer group created 16 years ago by Rocky Morrison to keep the Merrimack River clean — used floating net booms to assist in removing the colossal amount of trash.

Constantine Gabriello a Malawian national that resides in Olievenhoutbosch can be seen helping to set up a trash collecting net in Olievenhoutbosh, 22 October 2019, Pretoria.

In an area which is supposed to be one of the most pristine dive sites in the Caribbean, a massive floating pile of plastic garbage that stretches for kilometres has just appeared.

A mesh net stretched across Folly Brook is designed for the most undesirable kind of catch: dirty hypodermic needles, used condoms, plastic bags and litter. The net is being touted by the Metropoli… ...