Creative solutions

Would you like to venture a guess what those things in the picture are? Take your time and look them over carefully.

Enough time? The ocean voyage aboard the KAIsei in August was to get a handle on the amount of trash plastic in the North Pacific Gyre. One objective of the organization is to look for solutions. The articles in the picture represent one solution, not the total one, but part of it. This particular solution has a two-pronged approach. But it sucks. Figured it out yet?

They are vacuum cleaners and they are made out of recycled plastic collected from beaches around the world. One of them is made from plastic found on Hawaiian beaches. Just think if one could be made big enough to collect other garbage from the water.

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