Meet Mr Trash Wheel – and the other new devices that eat river plastic

Russell Thomas, The Guardian Plastics & Pollution

Meet Mr Trash Wheel – and the other new devices that eat river plastic
Tiff Ng on Pexels

The Great Bubble Barrier is just that – a wall of bubbles. It gurgles across the water in a diagonal screen, pushing plastic to one side while allowing fish and other wildlife to pass unharmed.

The technology, created by a Dutch firm and already being used in Amsterdam, will be trialled in the Porto region of Portugalas part of the EU-supported Maelstrom (marine litter sustainable removal and management) project.

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