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Show All (6) Coastal Water Cleanups (2) News (2) Plastic Recycling (1) River Intervention (1) News - Week of January 4, 2021 Water Wheel, Newport Beach FRED - a Floating Robot for Eliminating Debris News - Week of December 7, 2020 Great Ocean Cleanup Moves In On Ganges River Plastic Recycling Takes a Leap Forward Subscribe to RSS Feed

News - Week of January 4, 2021 News - Week of January 4, 2021 Test News A November 12, 2020, article in the Guardian suggests there is a biological reason that explains why people get sick during some seasons more than others. According to the UK Biobank study, which has collected the blood from 329,361 participant and followed more than half a million of them for more than a decade, “white blood cells (you know, the ones that help us fight off viruses) change based on time of day and season. This means that our immune ... Read more...   Water Wheel, Newport Beach Water Wheel, Newport Beach Each year, pollution in the form of trash, debris, and contaminants enters the Upper Newport Bay, part of the Upper Newport Bay Ecological Reserve, a marine protected area located in Newport Beach, California. In previous years, the amount of physical waste entering Upper Newport Bay has measured in hundreds of tons. The proposed Newport Bay Water Wheel Project (Project) will remove significant quantities of trash and debris that are currently entering Upper Newport Bay via San D Read more...   FRED - a Floating Robot for Eliminating Debris FRED - a Floating Robot for Eliminating Debris FRED is a large, unmanned, semi-autonomous ocean-faring robot powered with renewable energy, designed to clean up harmful floating debris from marine environments such as bays, rivers, and oceans. Clear Blue Sea is currently prototyping FRED subsystems with help from the San Diego community. FRED’s debris collection conveyor belt picks up floating debris sized from about 10mm to 1m long. FRED goes to the Mothership for offloading collected debris and the Read more...   News - Week of December 7, 2020 News - Week of December 7, 2020 Read more...   Great Ocean Cleanup Moves In On Ganges River Great Ocean Cleanup Moves In On Ganges River Read more...