Floating Trash Barrier

10pointer31 Oct, 2022Education

10POINTER- A floating trash barrier (FTB), developed by AlphaMERS Ltd. and deployed in eight cities across India to trap trash in water bodies, has won the Cleaning and Restoring India?s Water Bodies Challenge. About Floating trash barriers could address the serious environmental issue of floating solid waste pollution plaguing India?s water bodies. Floating barriers, also referred to as boom, are devices placed in the water to control and contain oil, floating debris, invasive aquatic plants, trash, silt, sediment, and turbidity.