Test Plastic Soup in flume NIOZ

The Ocean Cleanup Foundation is developing a concept to remove plastic litter from the ocean with floating booms. Tests in the flume of NIOZ-Yerseke has to make clear whether this concept will work out. The movies below give impressions of these experiments.
In movie 1 you can see how the current in the flume is made, how the boom is positioned perpendicular to the current and how the plastic litter is collected in front of the boom.
Movie 2 shows how the plastic litter is slowly moving towards and finally concentrated in front of the boom.
The first results are encouraging!

Further information:
Dr. Tjeerd Bouma, NIOZ Yerseke, 0113 - 577 454
Dr. Klaas Timmermans, NIOZ Texel, 0222 - 369 494