of the plastic waste in the oceans emanates from fishing due to illegal trash disposal on the high seas and lost fishing nets among other things Some 10 in the Pacific last fall were foiled by technical issues The system is currently being revised Still in the development and funding phase is the 400 by 400 meter 1 300 by 1 300 foot large Pa cific Garbage Screening project devised by Marcella Hansch a student from Aachen Germany PGS is de signed to be a floating platform directly anchored in the garbage whirlpool The best part about it it works without nets and filters so fish and other marine ani mals can swim through it without risk she says ex plaining her idea The operating principle of PGS the platform is intended to calm the wild currents within the garbage whirlpool so that the lightweight micro particles can rise to the surface from where they re skimmed off She and her team have also thought about future uses of the collected plastic waste We don t want to just incinerate the plastic materials but for instance use them as a resource to generate ener gy and biodegradable plastics says Hansch By contrast the 4Ocean initiative founded by Andrew Cooper and Alex Schulze performs man ual work in every respect Like many others the two surfers from Florida turned into environmental activ ists due to personal experiences with garbage floating in the ocean With their organization that was found ed only two years ago they have by now managed to motivate some 150 volunteers around the world to join cleanup crews collecting plastic waste on coasts and beaches by hand The project is financed by the sale of stylish bracelets produced from recycled plastic waste So far more than two million kilos 4 4 million pounds of plastic waste have been collected accord ing to the organization Arguably the most spectacular trash collection campaign though was launched in India in October 2015 It shows what enormous effects the initiative of a single individual can have Initially acting on his own Afroz Shah a young Indian lawyer began to collect plas tic waste that was littering Mumbai s Versova beach Subsequently joined by thousands of volunteers he has completely cleaned up the beach by now Even the sand that at the beginning of the campaign had been com pletely covered by mountains of plastic garbage washed ashore is now visible again Recycling processing Obviously not all plastic waste from the ocean can be recycled into stylish bracelets nor into innova tive sneakers functional shirts or chlorine resistant swim suits like those produced by German sportswear manufacturer Adidas However projects like these do serve to heighten public awareness of the acute threat to the oceans Plus per pair of the green shoe that uses 85 percent recycled marine waste an average of eleven plastic bottles are recycled according to Adidas 68 69

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