Could Plastic-Eating Robots Clean Up Our Oceans?
This story has been co-published by Reasons to be Cheerful and the Outrider Foundation. In Los Angeles, in Mumbai, in Kuala Lumpur and in several other cities around the planet, autonomous plastic-eating robots are taking over the waterways. They are, in one form or other, chomping up and extracting masses of the manmade garbage. This may sound like a far-flung scene from science fiction. But these waterborne “interceptors” - monitored using drones, GPS trackers, remote-sensing cameras and time-
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