Innovation to circulate marine trash and its plastic pollution | Ep. #33

<p>This week on weekly gupshup with Circular Collective, we bring to you the story of <a href="https://everwave.de/">Everwave</a>.</p> <p>In 2012, architecture student <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcella-hansch-34b81a95/">Marcella Hansch</a> wrote&nbsp;her master’s thesis on the Pacific Garbage Screening e.V. A vision emerged for Marcella from this thesis and she later laid the foundation stone for the development of an innovative platform that is supposed to free our seas from plastic waste.</p> <p>Symptomatic of today's throwaway society, plastics can be easily and quickly industrially produced, processed and are often given cheaply or even free of charge. DYK?- <strong>4.8 to 12.7 million tons of garbage per year</strong> find their way into our oceans. To put that into perspective it means a truck load per minute!</p> <p><strong>Nowadays I expect and look forward to seeing garbage in every waterbody that I come across. Has it ever occurred to you?</strong></p> <p><a href="https://www.pewtrusts.org/-/media/assets/2020/07/breakingtheplasticwave_report.pdf">Breaking the Plastic Wave- a report by PEW Charitable Trust</a> suggests that On the current trajectory, which we call Business-as-Usual, the annual flows of plastic into the ocean could nearly triple by 2040. What’s more alarming is that, even if all current major industry and government commitments are met with and adhered to, the world would only see a 7% reduction in its annual rate of plastic pollution flowing into the ocean when compared to the Business-as-Usual scenario.</p> <p>This means that we have a lot of work to do, in order to achieve the dream of seeing clean water bodies once again.</p> <p>Everwave stemmed from RWTH Aachen which is one of the premier engineering institutes of Germany.</p> <p>Their work is segmented into two pillars. The first one is called as Ecological Inspiration where through interactive events and creative PR they raise awareness of the global plastic crises. They have developed the "<a href="https://everwave.de/