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    BIG IDEAS TO MAKE BIG CHANGES

    Oct 25, 2021 4 minutes
    Words: Sarah Wilson

    The ‘trash wheel’ cleaning up waterways

    We’re all aware of the horrifying amount of plastic that ends up in the oceans every year. Already, the figure stands at eight million tonnes annually, and if this accelerates, some predict the volume will weigh more than all the fish in the sea by 2050.

    In the early Noughties John Kellett, a sailor and engineer from the US city of Baltimore, encountered this plastic a lot more than the average person. Having worked in the city’s harbour for several years, he saw plastic floating in the water on a regular basis. One day, he decided it was high time to

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