Thursday, January 24, 2019

Summary exercise in point form


In the article “Boy Genius Boyan Slat’s Giant Ocean Cleanup Machine is Real,” Schiller (2017) stated that an improvised design of the trash collecting machine would help to collect plastic trash in the Pacific Ocean.

            The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is an area of the ocean where currents concentrate the plastic we throw into the ocean.

            Boyan Slat, who first set out a vision of his Ocean Cleanup machine in a TED talk six years ago when he was just 17, announced that he’ll begin hauling trash from the Patch in 2018.

            Slat’s design involves massive booms that collect trash using the Pacific’s own currents.

            The booms act as an “artificial coastline” passively catching and then concentrating debris into the centre, from where it’s offloaded to a boat that sweeps by periodically.

            He plans to suspend the booms with large anchors that float in deeper water, so the booms shift around the ocean.

            The anchors will be suspended on lines in four segments, each 40 feet tall and 13 feet wide.

            They have a total surface area of 328 feet square, enough to provide plenty of drag to slow down the booms as plastic trash circulates around the “gyre”–a swirling trash vortex within the Garbage Patch.

            Using a floating system has advantages in both cost and time.

            The Ocean Cleanup Foundation, now numbering 65 people, will begin testing a 0.6-mile prototype, before full deployment in 2018.

            Slat expects to collect tens of thousands of tons of debris a year, and for each device to need emptying every month.

            The long-term plan is to recycle all the plastic collected into items like car bumpers, chairs, and eyewear.

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