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!

EcoIsland

Passive cleanup systems are being experimented to purify ocean waters from micro plastics. These technologies depend upon transportation of waste on land for final treatment.

We propose an on-site approach to dispose of plastic waste directly in water, in an automated and energy efficient way.

An EcoIsland is an advanced floating factory equipped with special bacteria capable of digesting PET plastics.