Project Details

Awards & Nominations

GAiA 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!

GAiA Project

GAiA is a ocean cleanup solution aiming to dispose of ocean trash while preserving sea life. It is a 3 in 1 detecting, collecting and recycling machine. GAiA, make the earth clean again !

GAiA

The GAiA project is a three in one (3in1) detect, collect, recycling machine.

Starting by studying the Great Pacific Ocean Patch appearance using the data offered by NASA, the analysis shows that the garbage has huge impact on changing the ocean's colour. Based on this, it is possible to detect a given infected area if we notice a similar behaviour. After the detecting process, the GAiA machine is sent to the location. This machine is a one kilometre (1km) half tube equipped with solar panels on the outer surface and two built-in electrical carpets on the inner surface. One is vertical to bring the debris from the surface of the ocean to the second horizontal carpet that transfers the garbage to the two ships residing on both sides of the tube. Concerning the under-surface trash, a dynamic net is responsible for collecting the garbage from underneath. The net depth is fixed by the SONAR depends on the depth of the ocean. In order not to harm any sea species we use Pro-Fish technology which is a device attached to the ship sending sound frequencies to scare the fish away from our path. As for the micro-plastic found in the ocean, the solution already exists which is that of the ferro-fluid (the magnet fluid); however, it is a challenging task to implement it in our ships. After the garbage enters the ship, it is automatically dried and sent to the closed oven to be cremated under eight hundred and fifty degree Celsius (850°c) to generate power that turned into electricity and steam into heat. The toxic gas produced during the process will be filtered through a special chimney to turn it into a clean air smaller than a micron, which make it cleaner than the air we currently breath which also be a great deal in the light of the forest fire happening lately. Ninety per cent (90%) of the garbage is degraded leaving us with ten per cent (10%) ash that can be used in the construction of buildings and roads.

Basically, The GAiA project is cleaning the ocean, saving sea life, turning garbage into a green clean energy, reducing the climate change danger while saving time and efforts.


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GAiA, make the earth clean again.