A Bucket Designed to Suck Up Ocean Trash

Seabin is a revolution in ocean cleaning technology. It will help create cleaner oceans with healthier marine life, by starting close to the source of the problem in a controlled environment. 

The marinas, ports and yacht clubs are the perfect place to start helping clean our oceans.

There are no huge open ocean swells or storms inside the marinas, its a relatively controlled environment. The wind and currents are constantly moving the floating debris around in our oceans and in every port, marina or yacht club there is always some pollution heavy areas based on the predominant wind and current directions.

By working with these marinas, ports and yacht clubs we can locate the seabin in the perfect place 
and mother nature brings us the rubbish to catch it. Sure we cant catch everything right now but its a really positive start. It’s a big mission, but it can be done.

In fact, we’re doing it right now. 

Existing solutions to the ocean pollution problem.

The existing solutions addressing the oceans pollution problems is typically the “trash boats” These boats drive around harbors and marinas scooping up rubbish with nets built into them. They are very expensive to run and maintain and while they do a lot of good, they are not very effective according to the marinas that operate them says Caterina Amengual, General Director of the environment for the Balearic islands, Spain.

Marina workers walk around with nets scooping the rubbish out of the corners where it all converges. Again while these guys they are doing a great job, they just cannot keep up with the pollution says Eli Dana, General Manager of Newport Shipyard, Rhode Island. 

Bigger scale ocean clean up concepts are also happening. The main one is by Boyan Slats with “The Ocean Clean Up”. But at this moment in time its just a concept, but a great one!  

Why is the Seabin better?

· Because its here now

· It’s a solution

· It’s a prevention

· Its educative

· It works

· Its low cost

· Its low maintenance

· Its very effective

· It works 24/7

The Seabin isn’t big or bulky and can fit into the problem corners of marinas without being obtrusive or taking up dock space for boats. The waste in the Seabin is collected easily and disposed of responsibly in the already establish waste disposal system of the marina.

We also have the option to fit an oil/water separator to the system.  

How does Seabin work?   

The Seabin is located in the water and is fixed to a floating dock. There is a shore based water pump on the dock running on shore power.

The water pump creates a flow of water into the bin bringing with it all floating rubbish and debris. The rubbish/debris is caught in a natural fibre catch bag and the water is then sucked out the bottom of the bin and up to the water pump where it is then pumped back into the marina.

Source: indiegogo  

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