Source: inhabitat.com
Published: March 21, 2015
James Dyson, inventor of the Dyson vacuum, wants to use a river barge with cyclone cleaning technology to clean dirty rivers.
Dyson originally unveiled the idea for Time magazine, but the folks over at Fast Company asked the inventor for a bit more detail on his incredible idea. According to Dyson, a large net would be pulled behind the boat, collecting garbage as it moves along. “The nets face upstream and skim the surface of the river for floating debris. The plastic waste is shredded on board and then different grades of plastic are separated by a huge cyclone–very similar to the way our cyclonic vacuums work,” he told Fast Company.
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While Dyson has developed a rough sketch of the idea, he admits that it needs more work, such as figuring out how to prevent aquatic life from being sucked up along with the trash, before we will ever see his barges moving along the rivers. Until then, we will just need to keep working on ways to keep the trash from reaching our rivers in the first place.
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Lead image via James Dyson for Time, image via Nobuyuki Hayashi