In 2015 we were lucky to meet a project that will clean the oceans from the year you are about to enter and in which the system will be deployed to leave those seas a little cleaner than they are.
Now it is the Seabin Project or The Seabin Project that has devised throw a trash can to collect floating debris in the water. This project has been devised by two young Australians and is itself a wastebasket from the sea that works in a similar way to the mechanisms used to collect leaves and floating waste in swimming pools.
This garbage can has a filter that is responsible for collecting the garbage to take it to a submerged container connected to a pump that circulates the water. This same is the one that is in charge of returning the clean water to the sea. Seabin is responsible for trapping all solid waste inside to release clean water, thus leaving the sea free of impurities.
At the moment the prototype will serve for the implementation in yacht clubs and ports, and the way they are getting financing is through the platform Indiegogo for crowdfunding. His goal is to reach $ 230.000 in these next few days. The cost of each unit is $ 3.825 and its commercialization would be for mid-November in 2016.
It was precisely in Palma when the Seabin prototype was presented and it has been specially designed for these port areas where there is little swell and it has easy access to an electrical source to run the pump that is inside it, which is responsible for doing all the "dirty" work. Andrew Turton and Peter Ceglinski are the two young people from the Seabin Project who are currently looking for funding.