This Floating Platform Could Filter The Plastic From Our Polluted Oceans {LARGE IMAGES}

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http://www.businessinsider.com/floating-platform-filters-plastic-2014-7



“Plastic is an extremely durable material, taking 500 years to biodegrade, yet it’s designed to be used for an average of 5 minutes, and so it’s 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 it’s designed to be used for an average of 5 minutes, and so it’s 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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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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2. Amen....

time to take back some of those 'record' profits.

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3. K&R....