A small boat designed to collect ocean waste took to the water for the first time off Indonesia's Bali island on Tuesday, launching a mission to tackle pollution in a region notorious for its marine plastics problem.
The Mobula 8, brainchild of 52-year-old Franco-Swiss Yvan Bourgnon, is capable of clearing solid debris, microwaste and oil spills, and he expects it to retrieve up to 1,000 tonnes of waste annually.
He hopes Mobula 8 will be an idea replicated elsewhere and said it was his dream that thousands more are mobilised. Plastics pollution threatens extinction of marine species, and microplastics have now become part of the food chain, with environmental groups warning of severe consequences for life and the planet.
"It is very disturbing to us as surfers and those who swim there," 21-year-old Rifon Laia said of plastics.
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