A marine environment company in the Netherlands has created WasteShark, a ground-breaking robotic shark that could provide a solution to the serious pollution problem in the Chao Phraya River in Thailand. The device patrols rivers and canals and swallows discarded plastic waste.
Invented by Netherlands-based RanMarine, WasteShark is a battery-powered electric catamaran that can travel up to 5 kilometres through water before needing a recharge. It can collect up to 500 kilograms of plastic and other pollutants as it navigates through the water on its own.
Recently, the WasteShark was tested in the River Thames near London’s docklands, where it successfully collected over 22,700 plastic bottles in a single day.
RanMarine CEO Richard Hardiman told Reuters that “WasteShark is a drone on water and it’s designed to sweep the surface of the water and collect trash, debris, biomass…
