With the patented solution designed by SEADS the Engineering modelling supports a technology that is at the same time effective and simple. Making a worldwide-scale application both feasible and desirable.
Every minute a truck of plastic is dumped into the Sea
By 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in the Oceans.The vast majority of this plastic comes from only 10 Rivers.
Our Solution: The Blue Barriers
The Blue Barriers are a simple yet effective patented technology to stop the plastic before it gets to the Oceans and to transform it into a resource.
The Blue Barriers are designed to:
Stop waste
before it gets to the ocean
and transform it in a resource
Solve the
issue Permanently
Designed to resist to any river condition
Create job
opportunities
for local communities
Improve local
waste management
to avoid waste entering in the rivers in the first place
A recent Ellen MacArthur Foundation report states that:
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millions
metric tons of plastic currently enter the ocean every year
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%
this quantity is expected to double by 2030
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%
and quadruple by 2050, by then there will be more plastic than fish in the sea
Our partners
An innovative technology that, once scaled up to large rivers, could give a significant contribution to the fight against the devastating effect of Ocean plastic contamination.
Lorenzo Cappietti
Professor at Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, University of Florence
There is no doubt that this technology, paired with an effective strategy to recycle the collected material, would have a tremendous impact.
