BBCNEWS Click - Short Edition June 4, 2024 19:55:00
Great pacific garbage patch by the end of the decade. so, rivers really are the arteries that carry trash from the land to sea. so when it rains, plastic washes from streets into creeks into rivers and then, ultimately, to the ocean. so we have developed a collection of technologies we call interceptors, which are automated systems that we put in the mouth of rivers, and that catches the trash before it reaches the oceans. our flagship tool in our toolkit is what we call the interceptor original, which is this solar—powered autonomous robot, essentially, that has these conveyor belts to auto...