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The Great Bubble Barrier: How air bubbles are stopping river plastic before it reaches the sea

Plastic pollution is flooding the world's rivers and seas – but one Dutch company says a curtain of air bubbles can stop it. Here's how.

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00:09Most of it kind of travels via our rivers towards the ocean.
00:15It ends up in the rivers and by water, by rain, it flows towards the oceans of the world.
00:32All those beach cleanups, they help. The ocean cleanups, they help.
00:38But more effort is needed to actually put this to a stop.
00:55We place a tube at the bottom of a waterway. There's little holes in that tube and we pump air
01:01through that and it creates a curtain of bubbles going upwards.
01:04If you have a canal or a river flowing towards the ocean, you place this bubble curtain diagonally.
01:11We can kind of guide the plastic and other debris towards the side of the river where we can collect
01:17it.
01:19We don't hinder fish, we don't hinder ship traffic.
01:32It really increased our visibility. Also a lot of doors have opened.
01:38That really kind of made a huge push for us to go international and bring our solution to where it's
01:45needed.
01:51Our biggest dream would be to go to Southeast Asia, but we really want to have a system that can
01:57function on this high quality on different type of canals and rivers.
02:01So we're kind of continuously improving and we're having good conversations with cities there as well so we can help
02:07out on those places as well.
02:17They see those kind of popping up on all the crucial places in the world that would be the biggest
02:22dream.
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