Neat News 2735 (added 2023-06-27)

New approaches to take plastic out of rivers

To protect oceans, there are innovative approaches to pulling plastic out of rivers, for instance, by using floating barrages. By surveying rivers the measures can be targeted to the most polluted ones. An important point is to create a circular economy for river plastic to make the measures economically viable.

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News seen at: World Economic Forum - Plastics and The Environment