What would go into building a vessel designed to remove all the junk from the oc...

andrewfong · on Feb 5, 2014

There was (and maybe still is) a project to build an open-source low-power autonomous robot to clean up oil spills. https://sites.google.com/a/opensailing.net/protei/

Not sure if still active. Presumably, you could build something to pick up trash in general.

Bigger issue though is the trawling -- junk or no junk, trawling is incredibly devastating to the ecosystem.

protomyth · on Feb 6, 2014

I was curious about a ship designed to clean up the wreckage after a tsunami or the pacific garbage.