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40 years late, but still achievable within 4 years !
Posted by Paul Manning | West Midlands, United Kingdom
Governments signed the 1982 Laws of the Sea Convention and further ratified the agreement to 'Stop waste entering the oceans from their rivers & estuaries' !
If they had done 40 years ago, what TEAA plan to do now, the oceans would NOT be in the mess they are in today.
TEAA can stem all of these flows of waste from 157 Countries, via 1376 estuaries, across 6 continents - achievable within 4 years !
TEAA can install catchment systems on ALL the estuaries(in every Member State country) and supply the extraction vessels, crews and all equipment needed to recycle and process the captured waste.
TEAA (The Extraction Action Alliance) have researched the correct barrier system to use, so after our initial estuary impact study and survey (including but not limited to; widths, depths, flow rates, water & sediment sampling, video & photo imagery along with drone footage that gets converted to data along with bed mapping. The wildlife, insect life, birdlife, marine & plant life are all documented for safe installation points. Whilst this is being achieved TEAA supply a full recycling facility; sorting line, plastic granulation plant, biomass briquette plant and pyrolysis plant. The ‘Landing craft’ extraction vessel is then delivered which also doubles up for beach clearance help as TEAA can then deploy equipment (that we also supply; JCB 3XC & 4ton dumper) directly on to beaches.
Remember; it is the catchment barrier that does the work of stemming these flows, TEAA’s extraction vessel can visit and extract from many estuaries visiting daily, weekly or month (depending on waste flows)almost like your dustbin lorry or refuse collection service.
A TEAA installed barrier cost about $1000 so if like (lets say) ‘Jamaica’ you have 120 rivers, this costs about £120,000 the other £1.8M provides, the sorting station, the granulator, pyrolysis plant, the biomass briquette plant, the extraction vessel, JCB equipment and a trained crew that circumnavigates the island extracting waste from ALL rivers costing a total £2M. ‘Green waste’ processed in to biomass briquettes, heavy plastic granulated for resale and light plastic through pyrolysis back into gas & oil – TEAA ‘with Benioff help’ can then provide free heat, light, power, employment – oh, and FREE clean water to some of the most desperate parts of the world !
Each ‘recycling centre’ runs off solar, biomass and hydropower plants all included in the £2M…. times this process by the 157 Member States – Job done ! NO MORE WASTE ENTERS THE OCEANS (4 years globally)