WasteShark

Remediation Strategy

Collection

Plastic Type

Macroplastics

Invention Category

Drones and Robots

Used?

Yes

Included in analysis?

Yes

Location Invented

Netherlands

Year^*

2018

Description

Drone modeled after a whale shark skims the water and collects floating debris.

References

“Chomping down on trash: WasteShark collects marine debris,” 2018; Cook, 2019; Dormehl, 2016; Morjaria, 2019.

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