{"id":4317,"date":"2022-01-11T08:39:43","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T07:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/11\/meet-mr-trash-wheel-and-the-other-ingenious-tools-that-eat-river-plastic\/"},"modified":"2022-01-11T08:39:43","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T07:39:43","slug":"meet-mr-trash-wheel-and-the-other-ingenious-tools-that-eat-river-plastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/11\/meet-mr-trash-wheel-and-the-other-ingenious-tools-that-eat-river-plastic\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Mr Trash Wheel \u2013 and the other ingenious tools that eat river plastic"},"content":{"rendered":"

From \u2018bubble barriers\u2019 to floating drones, a host of new projects aim to stop plastic pollution before it ever reaches the ocean<\/p>\n

The Great Bubble Barrier<\/a> is just that \u2013 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.<\/p>\n

The technology, created by a Dutch firm and already being used in Amsterdam, is being trialled in the Douro River in Porto, Portugal, as part of the EU-supported Maelstrom<\/a> (marine litter sustainable removal and management) project.<\/p>\n

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\nFrom \u2018bubble barriers\u2019 to floating drones, a host of new projects aim to stop plastic pollution before it ever reaches the ocean
\nThe Great Bubble Barrier is just that \u2013 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.
\nThe technology, created by a Dutch firm and already being used in Amsterdam, is being trialled in the Douro River in Porto, Portugal, as part of the EU-supported Maelstrom (marine litter sustainable removal and management) project. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From \u2018bubble barriers\u2019 to floating drones, a host of new projects aim to stop plastic pollution before it ever reaches the ocean The Great Bubble Barrier is just that \u2013 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 …<\/p>\n

Meet Mr Trash Wheel \u2013 and the other ingenious tools that eat river plastic<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4317"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}