The Great Bubble Barrier
Emerging Technology
The Great Bubble Barrier is a floating barrier that collects plastic pollution from the ocean. It has collected over 1,000 pounds of plastic pollution since it was installed in 2017. Listen to learn more.
The power of tiny bubbles is being harnessed to remove plastic pollution from Europe’s rivers. Dutch start-up The Great Bubble Barrier has developed an ingenious way of intercepting rubbish, by creating a curtain of bubbles that pushes plastics to the side of the waterway. In a pilot test conducted in the IJssel, the bubbles caught 86 per cent of material. Promising news for the long-term barrier installed in an Amsterdam canal in 2019, which is stopping trash from reaching the North Sea.
The Great Bubble Barrier
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