CoOP project - NASA Space Apps 2019
Channel: Federico Godini
Date: 2019-10-27

CoOP: a Compactator of Oceanic Plastic
SYLAR team (design and renders by Federico Godini, voiceover R. Roberto) - Trieste, Italy

The mission we plan involves bringing a semi mobile barge to the “center” of the patch that can act as a temporary island of suction, compacting and stocking, using the abundance of renewable energies that we can exploit in the middle of the ocean.
With the available data we can calculate the trash volume: so compressing it to half of its original size directly on site, at the end it should fit in only 2 container ships.
Once the first focal point of the patch is cleaned, the semi-mobile station can move into the second and continue the process.