Interceptor boats collect plastic trash as it floats down rivers and into the sea.

Dec 5, 2020 1:56 AM

JasonM1

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Even better --> companies making products you can buy without plastic.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I dont mean to diminish the effort, but that boat has a giant exhaust.. just polluting the air..

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You see these dead on the edge of the Nile in Cairo.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

They should collect the people who made this trash

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I would apply for the job to do this to Lake Erie.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

... the ramp needs to be alot wider. And the storage needs to be *alot* bigger. But, big first steps!

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

When you are done with the planet, then send it up into space. We made a fucking mess up there too.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Sea roombas!

5 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

That’s what’s on the surface, I can’t image the seabed in places

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Plastic water bottles should be banned

5 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 2

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That we even need this kind of thing :(

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Solar paneled paddle wheeler!! Fantastic

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

See, THIS is what you do instead of screaming at governments to "do something".

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

real life raft game

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Man, we really suck as a species

5 years ago | Likes 485 Dislikes 5

Barely noticing?

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 6

It's not all of us. This kind of thing is common from the entitled class of people. Normal people hold their drink, till they pass a bin.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

More of we are the best and worst. Our own worst enemy and greatest ally

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

But when humanity really gets tested we all come together... Just kidding, we all totally suck!

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

We really do. We are the actual trash

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Even clean countries have this problem, animals get into the trash then the wind gets it and blows it into to water. Not always shit humans

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

It's interesting how there's a side of our species that really sucks, but then there's the side that spends their lives making this stuff

5 years ago | Likes 40 Dislikes 0

At some point I guess we’ll diverge into two separate species. Kinda makes sense. It’s perhaps the most significant selection pressure today

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

it's just a shame they collaborate from the start

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

*don't

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

This is why I am doing my part and any garbage I throw out of my car is biodegradable.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Just throw the litterbugs into the river.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I miss Balti when I see Mr Trashwheel

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

And the IPA dedicated to mr T’s lost python

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Does anybody know how to import a container with beers to Europe?

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That boat would be full in 10secs in Bali

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Great news - where is this? Does the project have a name?

5 years ago | Likes 59 Dislikes 0

Please search Boyan Slat, an amazing young person truly helping.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Something similar... https://www.mrtrashwheel.com. In Baltimore.

5 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

Mr. Trash Wheel (and some of his kin) in the Baltimore metro on the Inner Harbor. Mister is at the Jones Falls at Pier 6.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

There are a couple on the Chicago River, gotta keep it pretty for photos.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

The googly eyed one is Mr trash wheel. Love his IG and there’s a Reddit AMA with him that’s pretty funny

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

They even managed to get them up in India by now, on the Ganges

5 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

If ever a river needed cleaning up it's the Ganges, do you know the name of these marvellous machines?

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Boats

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Trashy McTrashface. ❤️

5 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

It's called Mr Trash Wheel, which isn't far off ?

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Ive said it before and I'll say it again: The fact that this is needed is sad and utterly shameful

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I want to make a sports joke, but “collecting Jets out of the Hudson” is a twofer

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Doesn’t one have googly eyes?

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Nice

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

To technology! The cause of-and solution to- all of life’s problems!

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

I think historically starvation was a very common problem. At least where I live it's not a problem in my lifetime.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

We can have the tech without the problems, it just won't make anybody rich.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

You can't.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

All the rich people watching star trek and scowling

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You know not all garbage floats you libtards! (Says any boomer who believes if something doesn't solve a problem 100% it's not worth it)

5 years ago | Likes 110 Dislikes 9

Clustering people by age is just as racist as clustering them by color.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 4

Strictly speaking no, but I agree with the sentiment

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

As a Boomer, I can tell you I'm a liberal, and always have been.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Or was pure laziness on my part. Conservative had too many characters and I just went with the first name I could think of.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

you could have used a "/s" but didnt, and yet you still got downvotes.

5 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 4

The downvotes were from calling ppl boomers it seems. And I did that bc only had seven characters left.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Now we need one that filters out microplastics.

5 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 1

I'm afraid that ship has sailed.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

This one does. It just takes the microplastic when its closer to other microplastic.

5 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 2

Kind of like before plastic turns micro

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Excactly. The different microplastic is very close to each other.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0