The plastic is (not so) great!

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Re: The plastic is (not so) great!




by Christophe » 18/10/19, 14:45

Elmer Food Beat is still alive and he just released this:

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by moinsdewatt » 27/10/19, 22:38

A barge picking up plastic waste on the polluted rivers of the planet

By AFP the 27.10.2019

A Dutch association for the defense of the environment, which fights against plastic pollution in the oceans, unveiled its latest invention on Saturday: a floating barge for collecting waste called "The Interceptor".

Built by the non-governmental organization The Ocean Cleanup, this barge will "turn off the tap" of the largest source of waste flowing into the oceans, rivers, its inventor, Boyan Slat, 25, said on Saturday in a statement. press conference in Rotterdam.

The boat, which will be anchored in polluted water courses, is able to pick up up to 50 tons of garbage per day.

"Under the right conditions, we think he could even double this figure," said the young man.

"The Interceptor" looks like a large barge with a curved barrier attached to it. The set is 24 meters long, works on solar energy, is fully autonomous and can collect plastic in rivers 24 hours a day, also detailed the CEO and founder of the NGO.

Placed at strategic places in a river network, the boat's barrier directs the plastic towards the "mouth" of the barge, which is then dumped into one of the six dumpsters. Its storage capacity is 50 cubic meters of plastic waste, the equivalent of "271.000 Rubik's cubes", underlined Mr. Slat.

Once filled to the brim, an on-board computer then sends a message to local operators to take out the skips and empty them "as easily as if you were cleaning your vacuum cleaner".

Two of these machines are already in service: one in Jakarta, Indonesia, and the other in Malaysia. A third is in preparation for a deployment in Vietnam while the model exposed to the press in the port of Rotterdam will soon join the Dominican Republic.

The project plans to tackle the 1.000 most polluted rivers in the world "within five years", contributing 80% of global plastic pollution.

At the beginning of October, the founder of the project also announced that a ship pulling a gigantic innovative flotation device, had successfully collected plastic for the first time in the "large Pacific garbage zone" (GPGP), a trash can floating three times the size of France, halfway between California and Hawaii.


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Re: The plastic is (not so) great!




by Christophe » 19/01/20, 14:34

It doesn't work out (how could it have been?), Modeling waste in the oceans:

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Re: The plastic is (not so) great!




by moinsdewatt » 19/01/20, 23:00

Malaysia: an innovative barge against the invasion of plastic in the oceans

AFP • 16 / 01 / 2020

A large barge equipped with a curved barrier collects waste at the mouth of a Malaysian river to prevent it from scattering into the sea: "The Interceptor" is a new weapon against the invasion of plastic in the oceans.

Some eight million tonnes of plastic are dumped into the oceans each year, from straws to packaging and other waste, according to the American NGO Ocean Conservancy.

This waste threatens many marine species and pollutes many formerly pristine sites. A particularly acute problem in Southeast Asia.

Faced with this tide of plastic, the Dutch NGO The Ocean Cleanup has developed a new solution with its "Interceptor": a 24-meter boat that looks like a barge and is equipped with a curved barrier to trap floating waste. washed away by streams.

The mainly plastic waste is directed to a ramp in the barge then passes on a conveyor belt before falling into dumpsters.

The "Interceptor", which runs on solar energy and is fully autonomous, can collect up to 50 tonnes of waste per day, according to its designers.

Floating discharge

In October, one of these devices was placed on the Klang River, a highly polluted stream that crosses the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur before jumping into the sea in the Straits of Malacca.

The Ocean Cleanup association collaborates with the local company Landasan Lumayan, which has been trying to clean up rivers since 2016 and observes that its efforts are starting to pay off.

“The Klang River was like a floating landfill,” says Syaiful Azmen Nordin, executive director of the Malaysian company. "The boats could no longer pass because there was so much plastic".

"Now you can see that the river no longer carries floating debris," he notes, as the barge installed near a mosque in Klang town, holds back the waste.

Ambitious deployment

The Dutch NGO hopes that its project will have a significant impact, while it estimates that 80% of the plastic waste that pollutes the oceans brought by rivers.

The waters of the Klang River alone carry more than 15.000 tonnes of plastic each year into the sea, according to a map on the NGO's website. This river is one of the 50 biggest contributors to maritime pollution on the planet.

The Ocean Cleanup has set itself the goal of equipping a thousand waterways, the most polluted in the world. "We know that this objective (...) is ambitious, but it is necessary", indicates Joost Dubois, a spokesperson for the NGO which hopes in five years to be able to solve a large part of the problem of plastic pollution in the seas .

But the task is immense. The NGO has built four boats to date, for 700.000 euros per unit, even if the cost should decrease.

One barge has been deployed in Malaysia, another in the congested megalopolis of Jakarta in neighboring Indonesia, and others are to be installed in Vietnam and the Dominican Republic.

Thailand has signed to install one next to the capital Bangkok, and the NGO is in negotiations with Los Angeles.

In Malaysia, alongside the barge, seven filter dams have been installed on the 120 km long Klang River.

The recovered trash is currently being dumped in landfills, although efforts are underway to extract recyclable waste.

Among the 50.000 tonnes of garbage recovered from the river in four years "we found tires, teddy bears and even dead animals (...) but in general it's plastic", remarks Syaiful Azmen Nordin .

These devices will only work if people take responsibility too and stop throwing plastic away, he insists nonetheless.

"Some don't understand the impact that littering can have. They throw plastic on the streets, which ends up in rivers." "If we change our behavior, we can help make rivers cleaner," he insists.



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by moinsdewatt » 18/02/20, 01:20

Microplastic filters by 2025 on washing machines

AFP • 17 / 02 / 2020

France has launched the installation of plastic microfibers filters in washing machines, a world first intended to fight against pollution of the oceans.

"Is it feasible? The answer is yes, because we have no choice," said Secretary of State for Ecological Transition Brune Poirson on Monday after a roundtable where it brought together washing machine manufacturers, "innovators" who work on filter solutions, NGOs and consumer associations.

As of January 1, 2025, new washing machines sold in France, to professionals and individuals, must be fitted with filters intended to prevent microscopic plastic fibers released from clothing from washing during washing. The measure is included in the anti-waste law for a circular economy, promulgated last week.

The plastics used in the clothing industry (polyester, acrylic, elastane) indeed release during the washing of particles too small to be filtered in the treatment plants, which are found in the environment and in particular in the oceans.

Microplastics represent between 15% and almost a third of the approximately 9,5 million tonnes of plastics dumped each year at sea, according to figures from the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature).

- Bring the dossier to European level -

"It's a challenge, it's very difficult (...) it will not happen overnight" and "it requires a lot of work on the part of the manufacturers" and in particular "technological changes", admitted Brune Poirson. But "we must act", hammered the Secretary of State, who now wants to bring the case to European level "to ensure that this measure is not just a French measure".

As for the manufacturers, this first meeting is considered "constructive" because it "made it possible to raise many economic, technical and usage questions", according to a statement from their professional federation (Gifam) sent to AFP.

The manufacturers undertake to "do everything in their power (...) to find effective solutions" in order to "reduce plastic pollution". But they insist that the public authorities guarantee "healthy competition between the players" and also call for a measure at European level.

Brune Poirson wants to encourage manufacturers to integrate the filters into their devices as soon as possible, which would allow them to obtain an environmental bonus if they do so before 2025.

"We do not place all the responsibility on the manufacturers of washing machines", she underlined: the solution also passes through the textile industry (manufacturers and distributors of clothing) with which it also engaged in discussions.

"We should be optimistic," said Mojca Zupan, managing director of the start-up Planet Care, which has developed microplastic filters for washing machines.

"We have a solution, which is ready. We launched it last September and we sold around 500," she explained, presenting an external filter that plugs into the outlet of the washing machine. Adaptable technology inside a washing machine, says the head of Planet Care.

For Henri Bourgeois Costa, circular economy expert at the Tara Océan Foundation, "there is a major environmental objective" that "must never be lost sight of" and "that forces us to succeed". "To succeed is to succeed in solving the problem and no longer finding these textile fibers in the environment," he insisted.

Some 2,7 million washing machines are sold in France each year, or more than 7.000 per day, according to figures from Gifam. Over 97% of French households are equipped with a washing machine. In addition to households, there are 5.900 professional establishments in France which use washing machines (laundries and laundries).

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Re: The plastic is (not so) great!




by Christophe » 19/02/20, 00:12

Lyrics and lyrics and lyrics ...

I would like to see the head of the micro plastic filter !! How do we clean it? At the water? : Cheesy:

Perhaps it would have been so much more efficient to favor non-synthetic materials !!! But no ... always sell more than think more ...

This is only a big operation com for this startup which must have the long arm ...
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Re: The plastic is (not so) great!




by Christophe » 07/06/20, 22:44

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Re: The plastic is (not so) great!




by moinsdewatt » 19/06/20, 00:25

Thailand: plastic waste explodes with the pandemic

AFP • 18 / 06 / 2020

Channels overflowing with packaging, landfills flooded with bags: in Thailand, one of the biggest ocean polluters in the world, plastic waste has exploded since the pandemic with the boom in home food deliveries.
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by moinsdewatt » 02/07/20, 08:24

Plastic bags have become payable in Japan

AFP • 01 / 07 / 2020

Businesses in Japan started charging for plastic bags on Wednesday as part of a legislative reform that came into effect to curb the country's over-the-top love for polluting packaging.

Stores such as "konbini", ubiquitous convenience stores in the country, are free to set the price they want for these bags. Also their price is symbolic, around 3 yen (less than 3 euro cents).

However, it seemed to have an effect: "I go shopping in a konbini every morning. I knew (that the bags were going to be paid for, editor's note), so I brought my own bag," a consumer told the chain. NHK public television station.

Many municipalities in Japan require careful sorting (plastic, cans, paper, etc.), but the majority of household waste including plastic is nonetheless incinerated, a process that produces greenhouse gases.

Disposable lunch box, bananas or even prunes individually wrapped, double wrapped: in the country of the king customer, the refusal of a lid on his coffee or a small sachet to protect a food already in plastic most often arouses astonishment .

In 2018, however, the government announced a target of reducing its annual plastic waste production by one quarter by 2030, which was 9,4 million tonnes.

Japan is the second largest producer of plastic waste per capita after the United States, according to the United Nations.

The introduction of a blanket payment for bags "aims to encourage people to think twice about deciding if the bag is really necessary and to rethink their lifestyle," the government said.

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Re: The plastic is (not so) great!




by GuyGadebois » 02/07/20, 12:30

Hiro Tipetishi: "The plastic bag would have paid off, but it pays more, it has even become paying". : Cheesy:
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