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Robot fish could solve the ocean's microplastic pollution problem
A fish-shaped robot that can collect tiny pieces of plastic waste has been developed by scientists at Sichuan University, China. The bot uses light from a laser to flap its tail side-to-side and has a body that can attract molecules found on microplastics, causing them to stick to it as it swims past.
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Adding more plastic into the oceans? What could possibly go wrong?
We will not have any natural place left without garbage. It is a serious issue to take care before it is too late.
Everytime I read about solutions like this, it doesn't give an incentive for the plastics & petrochemicals industries to stop overproducing their filth. A bit like electric cars that seem to exist to save the automobile industry or hydrogen to save the fossil fuel industry. I'm starting to have the feeling that it doesn't give a damn what happens to this planet, because shareholders need their goddamn profits. Ah, yes, and growth because of growth. The very definition of a cancercell.
So true,and the so called clean up crew will become garbage when their batteries wear out.
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Sums it up well.