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Every year 6 to 17 million tonnes of litter are introduced into the sea; 60 to 90% of it is plastic waste. Due to various reasons, plastic litter is found in more abundance in shallow waters. The SeaRubbish2Cap project focuses on colleting the plastic waste from the ocean floor without damaging the ecosystem and recovering it to new use.
The plastic waste will be collected manually by divers and analysed to determine its nature. Then it can be treated to be incorporated into the production of high value-added products. At the same time a platform will be developed where people can identify litter location for collection, and the life cycle of the litter collected until the final product.
The project aims to benefit the society by tackling plastic pollution. More specifically we expect that the project encourages the creation of a closed circular economy system where businesses as fishery and plastic industry could benefit from a marketplace.
This project was envisioned by 4 partners. JustDive has the experience on diving and locating plastic waste; PIEP as polymer engineering centre has the knowledge to identify the plastic waste and transform it into valuable material and BitCliq brings it experience in creating the app and platform. Finally, Neutroplast, can transform the material provided by PIEP to produce packaging for the pharmaceutical and personal care industries.