Using air bubbles as filters, these giant barriers stop plastics from polluting oceans — Future Blink

The curtain-like barrier spans the width of most rivers.
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Using air bubbles as filters, these giant barriers stop plastics from polluting oceans — Future Blink
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With plastic continuing to flood into the seas, this giant curtain of bubbles is preventing some of the pollution from getting through.

The Great Bubble Barrier is essentially a filtering system, pumping air through a tube at the bottom of a waterway.


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