01/11/2026
More of this in Italy, please. ๐ฎ๐น๐๐ฝ
370 kg of trash never made it to the ocean, and all it took was a net.
Australia fitted mesh over its drains, so whatever the water carries out gets trapped before it can escape. Plastic bottles and junk end up sitting in a bag instead of drifting out to sea.
No robots. No billion-dollar cleanup fleet.
We keep waiting for some huge tech breakthrough to fix ocean pollution. Meanwhile the answer was hanging off the end of a pipe the whole time.
Simple idea. Massive payoff.