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AlphaMERS Floating Barrier

Remediation Strategy
Collection
Plastic Type
Macroplastics
Invention Category
River Booms
Used?
Yes
Included in analysis?
Yes
Location Invented
India
Year*
2015
Description
Floating barricade carries debris to the riverbank for manual or mechanical collection.

Effectiveness or Ecological Impact

Non-peer-reviewed Effectiveness

The floating barrier deployed in Chennai collects 22,000 tons of trash in one year (BW Online Bureau, 2020).

References

AlphaMERS Ltd. (n.d.). AlphaMERS. Retrieved November 8, 2022, from https://sites.google.com/a/alphamers.com/alphamers.
Non-peer-reviewed Effectiveness

BW Online Bureau. (2020). Devising Sustainable And Innovative Ways To Clean Up Our Rivers And Lakes. BW Defence. http://bwdefence.businessworld.in/article/Devising-Sustainable-And-Innovative-Ways-To-Clean-Up-Our-Rivers-And-Lakes/06-11-2020-340024/

 

* Year designates the year invented; if the year invented was unavailable, the earliest year that an article about the technology was published was used.