Bins built using recycled ocean waste

Andrew Turton and his team have been perfecting the Sea bin at a Spanish workshop

The aim for this invention is to reduce the  pollution in the ocean and set to be made available in up to  17 countries next year, with a prototype undergoing final trails in luxury European marinas.Mr Ceglinski said there a large amount of interest from cities and corporate companies around the world who had seen a pilot project at La Grande-Motte in France. With the huge interest that had been generated, people are crawling hand over foot to have sea bin. 

This project had signed an agreement with one of the manufacturer based in France with factories in Australia,, United State and Europe to distribute the sea bin in around seventeen countries in the beginning of next year. The Australian company expect to sell around one thousand quantities of sea bin in the first year of production.

Mr Ceglinski and Mr Turton with a team of six staff in Majorca have accomplish the final design of the bin.In late September they can start to work on the final model and products once they have completed the test for strength, rigidity and flotation testing. 

"Each version we've done has been better, perfecting each one... We have a solar powered 24-volt pump coming next week which we are really excited about."

Bins built using recycled ocean waste

The Sea bin Project is using plastic collected from the ocean by New York-based environmental group Parley for the Oceans to construct the device. They have received twenty kilos of plastic and they need to get their structure engineers to test this to work out what percentage at which they can use to construct sea bin(ABC News, 2016). Marine scientist have also been engaged to devise an educational program and oversee results. There are some local schools that are interested and wants to interact with this project. It's now a prerequisite for marinas that want to be an ambassador for the project to partner with a local school or sport club.They are starting to take water samples to create base data for when they start to disperse the Sea bins into the water the following week. At that time they can see the changes in the environment."

ABC News. (2016). Surfers set to turn Seabin dream into sales reality. [online] Available at: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-28/seabin-project-nears-reality-for-wa-surfers-with-2017-sales-plan/7665270?pfmredir=sm [Accessed 8 Oct. 2016].

Written by: Tan Pei Juen (Hisako)