The Great Lakes are awash in plastic. Can robots and drones help?
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Photo caption: The BeBot sand-sifting drone with Meijer branding. Photo courtesy of Meijer Inc. Article by Elsa Wenzel. GreenBiz – September 20, 2022.
Robot-like drones are roaming popular Great Lakes beaches in an effort, backed by $1 million from Meijer supermarkets, to filter plastic particles from sand and water while drawing attention to plastic pollution. A sand-crawling BeBot and a swimming PixieDrone sparked curious stares and questions among passersby at a Muskegon, Michigan, shoreline in August. The machines are conversation starters, for sure. “A lot of people don’t know that there is a plastics challenge or problem in the Great Lakes,” said Mark Fisher, […]
