This Floating Platform Could Filter the Plastic from our Polluted Oceans

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"Plastic is an extremely durable material, taking 500 years to biodegrade, yet it's designed to be used for an average of 5 minutes, and so it's thrown away. Few know where this mass of junk will end up ... in the oceans, killing and silently destroying everything, even us."

Cristian Ehrmantraut has developed a prototype for a floating platform that filters the ocean and absorbs plastic. Located 4 km from the coast of Easter Island, close to the center of the mega-vortex of plastic located in the South Pacific, the tetrahedral platform performs a kind of dialysis, allowing the natural environment to be recovered as well as energy and food to be produced.

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Cite: Franco, José Tomás. "This Floating Platform Could Filter the Plastic from our Polluted Oceans" [Plataforma de Dialización Oceánica busca descontaminar y restaurar los océanos] 16 Jul 2014. ArchDaily. (Trans. Quirk, Vanessa) Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/527863/this-floating-platform-could-filter-the-plastic-from-our-polluted-oceans> ISSN 0719-8884

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