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Related: About this forumThis Floating Platform Could Filter The Plastic From Our Polluted Oceans {LARGE IMAGES}
http://www.businessinsider.com/floating-platform-filters-plastic-2014-7Plastic is an extremely durable material, taking 500 years to biodegrade, yet its designed to be used for an average of 5 minutes, and so its 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.
From the Architect. The idea for the project comes from a reality that, although few realize it, affects us all: the disposable culture and its principal actor plastic
Since the 1960s, plastic has become a part of our daily lives, allowing us, among other things, to extend our lifespan. However, behind this remarkable reality lies an uncomfortable fact: plastic is an extremely durable material, taking 500 years to biodegrade, yet its designed to be used for an average of 5 minutes, and so its thrown away. Few know where this mass of junk will end up in the oceans, killing and silently destroying everything, even us.
Read more: http://www.archdaily.com/527863/this-floating-platform-could-filter-the-plastic-from-our-polluted-oceans/#ixzz37inmaRoH
Read more: http://www.archdaily.com/527863/this-floating-platform-could-filter-the-plastic-from-our-polluted-oceans/#ixzz37inaB7vE
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This Floating Platform Could Filter The Plastic From Our Polluted Oceans {LARGE IMAGES} (Original Post)
xchrom
Jul 2014
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DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)1. Sure I'm for it.....
...as long as we make the petroleum industry and those goddamned frackers pay for them.
- After all, it's their shit that made all the plastics.....
K&R
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daleanime
(17,796 posts)2. Amen....
time to take back some of those 'record' profits.
daleanime
(17,796 posts)3. K&R....