Project Details
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!
Internet of Ocean Trash
Finding and classifying large marine trash and raising awareness to clean trash
Background:
Lifecame from the Sea. We rely on the oceans for the air we breathe and the food we eat.
Withouthealthy oceans , life on earthis impossible and the oceans today are under attack.
Oceanacidification over fishing andpollution are killing sea life across the planet.
Theproblem of Plastic garbage in the oceans was brought to our attention by thehuge Islands of Garbage. The Largest between California and Hawaii covers the are 3 times that ofFrance and is believed tocontain 80,000tonnes amount of garbage.
Our project is toidentify and remove the greatest pieces of Garbage which accounts for roughly half of the globalamount.