Pacific Garbage Screening
Pacific Garbage Screening is an association that is developing a floating platform with the same name in order to use this to filter plastic particles from rivers and lakes and ultimately also from the world's oceans , thereby reducing plastic waste in the oceans .
history
The master's thesis by the architect and project founder Marcella Hansch forms the basis of the technological concept. Pacific Garbage Screening eV was founded at the end of 2016 to implement the concept study.
Cooperation partner
- European animal and nature protection
- Tomra Systems
- Institute for Hydraulic Engineering and Water Management at RWTH Aachen
- Institute for Applied Microbiology at RWTH Aachen
- Straniak Foundation
Large donations
- The annual Friendly Fire fundraising campaign raised around 1,200,000 euros from December 2019 and donated around 150,000 euros to Pacific Garbage Screening eV
See also
Web links
Commons : Pacific Garbage Screening - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
- Official website of Pacific Garbage Screening eV
- Pacific Garbage Screening: Will this giant German crest clear the oceans of plastic waste? Detailed description of the project with graphics.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Marcella Hansch Architect & Inventor Profile at tincon. Retrieved September 5, 2019.
- ^ Project Pacific Garbage Screening Website for the dialogue between students, parents and teachers with universities and training companies. Retrieved September 5, 2019.
- ↑ With the initiative "Pacific Garbage Screening" together against marine pollution website of the European Animal and Nature Conservation Foundation. Retrieved June 30, 2019
- ↑ GamesWirtschaft: Friendly Fire 5 Livestream 2019: Donations go to eight aid projects. December 7, 2019, accessed June 26, 2020 .
- ↑ GamesWirtschaft: Friendly Fire 5: Donation amount scratches the 1.2 million euro mark / date for corona stream. March 31, 2020, accessed June 26, 2020 .