We want many projects like this.
So shall The Manta , the ship with which the ocean could be cleaned in the very near future, specifically 2023 could be the date on which the organization ** The SeaCleaners ,** with the investment of Allianz Global Investors, would launch it.
No need to remember but we'll do that more than 8 million tons of plastic end up in the oceans every year , impacting the lives of more than 1,400 marine species and ending the lives of a million birds and 100,000 marine mammals. It is expected, if we do not remedy it before, that by 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in the oceans.
“I was only 8 years old when I first traveled with my parents. We went around the world in three years. Already in my adult stage, during different regattas, I was surprised to see the poor state of our oceans. So I decided to create The Sea Cleaners association in 2016 , which is dedicated to reducing plastic pollution”, says its founder Yvan Bourgnon.
A boat to clean the sea.
The objective is to fight by land and sea against waste. From this vocation was born The Manta Project , the first ocean-going ship capable of collecting and mass processing floating macro-waste before it breaks up in the ocean creating microplastics (the real big threat to everyone) .
But this is just one of all the actions that The SeaCleanes wants to carry out globally with members of UN Environment and of Albert Foundation of Monaco.
These actions are divided into four main axes: education for future generations , promote the circular economy so as not to generate so much waste, collection in the oceans with The Manta and the scientific study in the oceans through also The Manta Project. Some of them are already underway and are carried out daily.
The boat is being built for collect around 10,000 tons of macro-waste , for this it will have 70 m long, 49 m wide and 61 m high.
Also, The Manta will be a project based on renewable energies with 2,000 m2 of solar panels, two Darrius wind turbines, four automated platforms, four propulsion propellers and four water turbines.
Once the waste has been collected, the work of classify, compact, store and value . To do this, The Manta will have three collection systems to extract waste from the water, two powerful cranes to remove large objects, a manual sorting unit to separate plastics from other floating waste and an energy recovery unit to convert everything "not recyclable".
It is expected that in 2023 The Manta will make its first expeditions.