Nobody likes to bathe in dirty water, but even less people are eager to begin to scavenge personally from the World Ocean. Two a year ago Pete Seglinski and Andrew Terton, the Australian surfers, offered the project of a passive "trap for a garbage" under the name "Seabin". And here triumph time has come – entrusted to purify with it waters near a basis of the British Land Rover Ben Ainslie Racing yacht command in Portsmouth.
The trap of Seabin is constructed as a big bucket with holes which needs to be lowered and taken out from water. The difference of submergence pressures forces liquid to proceed with the garbage floating in it through a trap – conditionally clear water leaves, dirt remains. Each unit can collect up to 1,5 kg of waste days and accumulate in itself up to 12 kg if to leave it to work for a long time.
Power source by operation of Seabin disturbance of the sea though it is possible and to work as hands appears if there is desire. It is supposed that the pontoon in about tens of traps will ply on the gulf, slowly and accurately cleaning it from a garbage. In a basket not only ubiquitous plastic, but also generally everything that floats, including oily spots is caught. The trap is not dangerous to sea inhabitants because of the small speed of pumping of water.
The startup successfully received required financing, Seabin passed all tests and now are set on places of full-time employment. In addition to Portsmouth, it is, for example, the port of Helsinki and the Spanish Adriano. But if you want to join a good cause, be ready to expenditures – the price of one such trap begins from $4000. And still it is necessary to take care of a utilization of the caught garbage independently.