Seabin: How these 'floating garbage bins' can help clean up our waters

Sep 23, 2022

Each Seabin, or a floating garbage bin, is capable of capturing 90,000 plastic bags every year for less than $1 a day. Image: Seabin Project

Pooja Chhabria

Digital Editor, World Economic Forum

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Chart showing the increase of global plastic production, measured in tonnes per year, from 1950 through to 2015. Image: Our World in Data; Geyer, R., Jambeck, J. R., & Law, K. L. (2017). Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made. Science Advances, 3(7), e1700782.

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