Inspired by a whale shark’s wide mouth, Richard Hardiman’s company Ran Marine created the WasteShark, an autonomous machine that scoops up pollution out of water on the surface level
Inspired by a whale shark’s wide mouth, Richard Hardiman’s company Ran Marine created the WasteShark.
“They were cleaning a little bit of waste in one area and the wind was blowing everything out of the way. It looked, to me, extremely ineffective,” says Hardiman. The Aqua Libra WasteShark was deployed in London’s Canary Wharf this week as part of a project to clean up the area and make it a healthier, more biodiverse environment. Canary Wharf is a thriving financial district located on London’s River Thames. 120 000 people visit every day to work or shop there.
In fact, it is estimated that 8 million tonnes of plastic enter our oceans every year, much of it being swept from cities to the sea through rivers. The way we designed the WasteShark was that it was zero impact on the environment that it's working in. “Ducks and swans swim away from it. We're not fast enough to catch fish. So it really is a low-impact solution to remove pollution out of the water.” The WasteShark is battery-powered and travels up to 5km on one battery. That amounts to around 8-10 hours of cleaning time. A daily feed for the WasteShark is around 500kg of debris or the equivalent of guzzling roughly 21 000 plastic bottles.
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