BANGKOK, Aug 22 (TNA) – Twenty floating garbage
collectors will be installed in the rivers to remove garbage before entering
the ocean.
A private company presented the garbage collectors to the
Department of Marine and Coastal Resources on Thursday.
The Department’s Director-General Wijarn Simachaya said that
over 2.1 tons of garbage was dumped into five major rivers in Thailand each
year. More than half was plastic waste
that turned to be oceanic plastic harmful to the marine ecology and tourism
industry.
In a test in Samut Sakhon province, the floating garbage
collectors removed over 100 kilograms of waste flowing to river mouths.
Solar-powered garbage collector is operated automatically
when placed on river surface.
SCG, the inventor, plans to improve its capability to
collect up to 700 kilograms of waste a day.(TNA)
