Sea Bin, the Trash Can on the Ocean

Sea Bin, the Trash Can on the Ocean

     While trashes on the ground can be removed with comparative ease, trashes on the ocean are hard to remove. On the ocean, huge amounts of the trashes are floating than expected. By the research, only the plastic garbage on the ocean reached to 8 million tons. These trashes cause the changes in marine lives, consequentially the problems of the marine ecosystem arose. Two surfers in Australia, Andrew Turton and Pete Ceglinski, made a great invention called ‘Sea Bin’ to solve the trash problems on the ocean.

     Andrew and Pete, two inventers of the Sea Bin, loves surfing but it became harder because of the increasing marine litter. Therefore, they decided to handle the litter matters themselves and conducted for about 10 years. Finally they invented the Sea Bin, the trash can which can be installed above the sea. Now they are trying to scale up for mass production via crowd funding. The Sea Bin aims for improvement of traditional way of port cleaning, which costs high.

     The Sea Bin is just a trash can above the sea and it also called dust bean of the sea. It is made of a bucket with long pump and can run for 24 hours with less cost. If it is installed on the ocean, it inhales the trashes and oil. Additionally, the function of separating oil and seawater can be added. It draws in seawater, then separate oil from seawater and emits only the clean seawater. The surprising thing is that Andrew and Pete tested it for 4 years and during the testing, any fish and marine animals never came into the Sea Bin.

     Including the Sea Bin, news about handling marine waste are rising. It shows that the ocean is the important role of the environment. The Sea Bin only works for the harmful trashes, plastic and oil, so it might be the best way of eliminating trashes over the whole world’s ocean. Thus, the Sea Bin should be come into wide use.