(SOUNDBITE) (French) FRANCO-SWISS SKIPPER AND FOUNDER AND CHAIRMAN OF “THE SEACLEANERS” NGO, YVAN BOURGNON, SEE: ” With three or four hundred of the boats you could collect a third of the world’s pollution. ”
This boat recycles the garbage from the sea on board
By 2024, it could become a working prototype
and help clean up debris polluting the world’s seas
(SOUNDBITE) (French) FRANCO-SWISS SKIPPER AND FOUNDATION AND CHAIRMAN OF “THE SEACLEANERS” NGO, YVAN BOURGNON, SEE: “The Manta is a sea giant that is 56 meters long, which can collect over a width of 46 meters which weighs almost 2 thousand tons.It will be able to use 250 days a year to collect five to ten thousand tons of plastic per year.It is between one and two tons of waste every hour, so these numbers are quite something.With three or four Hundred “From the boats you can collect a third of the world’s pollution. It’s not enough, but by increasing these kinds of initiatives, smaller boats and other solutions, we will be able to eradicate part of the problem.”
It is also 70% self-sufficient in energy
The melting of plastic on board produces gas
which drives a turbine and generates electricity
Video transcription
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The Manta is a sea giant 56 meters long, which can collect over a width of 46 meters and weighs almost 2000 tons. It will be able to use 250 days a year to collect 5,000 to 10,000 tons of plastic a year. It’s between one and two tons of waste every hour, so these numbers are quite something. With 300 or 400 of these boats you can collect a third of the world’s pollution. This is not enough, but by multiplying these kinds of initiatives – smaller boats and other solutions – we will be able to eradicate some of the problem.
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