Irish teenager wins global science award for removing microplastics from water

#MoveTheDate Solutions

Personal / Community: Personal action

Nature sub-categories: Pollution remediation or prevention

Description: Ferreira stated that his proposal could “form the basis for an effective way of extracting microplastic from water”, adding: “The next step is to scale this up to an industrial scale.”

Website about this solution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_SEKSdv2CI

Video about this solution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_SEKSdv2CI

Why I love this solution: Plastics are a particular pet peeve of mine.

Comments

• • Cordula H.
  • 2019-08-07T13:02:56.816666+00:00
  • Congrats on the award - hope to see this applied at scale!