Clean NR| Trash Cleanup
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Awards & Nominations
Clean NR has received the following awards and nominations. Way to go!
Global Nominee
The Challenge | Trash Cleanup
Oceanic garbage patches are collections of marine debris that come together due to ocean currents; they have devastating effects on ocean ecosystems. Your challenge is to design a mission to help clean up garbage from the ocean!
LysClean
Mission of unmanned surface vehicles to collect debris from plastic garbage patches on the oceans
Our project consists in the design of a self-sufficient unmanned vehicle monitored by a mothership capable of:
- Go to the location of a "garbage patch" and stay on a fixed radio during collection.
- Collect waste independently, the collection of 6 tons per day is estimated per vehicle.
- Use renewable energy supplied by the mothership.
- The mothership generates electrical energy with a farm of solar panels.
These resources were used:
- NASA data on the location of the currents that direct the "garbage patches".
- Softwares: Google Spreadsheets, Illustrator, Adobe Illustrator, After Effects, SolidWorks and KeyShot.
Data of interest:
- Every unmanned vehicle is called Lysclean
- An economic projection was created on a spreadsheet to check how viable is the project
- It is estimated that the price of each unmanned unit is 109224 USD.
- It is estimated that the price of the mothership is 10 million USD.
- With 30 boats in a mission, the initial investment would be 13 million USD and could be recovered to 7 months with the sale of the recycled plastic.
Future plans:
- Scale the project to more garbage patches, with more unmanned ships.
- Get an economic benefit from the collected waste.
- Update the NASA's database with location and radius of the patches with the live data that cleaning vehicles acquire.