Seabin

Andrew Turton and Pete Ceglinski have a dream: to rid the ocean of all litter. While this might seem like an insurmountable goal, they’re taking it head-on.

They’ve created something called the Seabin, which is to be placed in harbors, yacht clubs, and other marinas where the water is relatively still. With the power of a pump, water flows into the contraption, taking debris and pollutants with it. The solid trash is caught in a mesh basket, while the water flows back into the ocean, but not before passing through a purifying filter.

While it might seem like a Seabin scattered here and there throughout the world wouldn’t make a huge difference, every little bit counts. When you see how much garbage just one bin can collect, you’ll become more conscious of how much garbage is out there, and we’ll hopefully work harder to change our ways. It really is incredible how horribly we treat the oceans and other bodies of water, which take up 71 percent of the planet we live on.

The hope is that the plastic collected in Seabins will go toward creating more Seabins, which will then collect more pollution… and so on and so forth.