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!

Ocean Trap

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Our ocean trap will be created to capture all the plastic by a U shaped net as a coastline with a skirt, we've added a gate to our model which will close once the system being full of plastics and we've designed our model to be slower than the plastics.

Pegasi

Our ocean trap will be created to capture all the plastic specifically exists in the great pacific ocean patch which is located between Hawaii and California by a U shaped net as a coastline with a skirt to prevent the smaller particles from escaping underneath, It will float on the water moving with the ocean current to save energy, collect the plastics and take it out, we've designed our model to be slower than the plastics speed by using a parachute to be able to catch the plastics, also we've added a gate to our model which will close once the system being full of plastics to avoid any wastes.