River Trash Traps Chew At Huge Ocean Plastics Problem

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Floating fences in India. Whimsical water- and solar-driven conveyor belts with googly eyes in Baltimore. Rechargeable aquatic drones and a bubble barrier in The Netherlands.
These are some of the sophisticated and at times low-tech inventions being deployed to capture plastic trash in rivers and streams before it can pollute the world’s oceans.
The devices are fledgling attempts to dent an estimated 8.8 million tons (8 metric tons) of plastic th