EVERY week Northglen News brings you ‘Things You Never Knew Existed’. This week it’s the Seabin, a floating rubbish bin that can collect plastic bottles, paper, and other pieces of rubbish floating in marinas. It was created by Andrew Turton and Pete Ceglinski. The Seabin is located in the water and is fixed to a floating dock.

“There is a shore based water pump on the dock running on shore power. The water pump creates a flow of water into the bin bringing with it all floating rubbish and debris. The rubbish/debris is caught in a natural fibre catch bag and the water is then sucked out the bottom of the bin and up to the water pump where it is then pumped back into the marina.

“The marinas, ports and yacht clubs are the perfect place to start helping clean our oceans. There are no huge open ocean swells or storms inside the marinas, its a relatively controlled environment. The wind and currents are constantly moving the floating debris around in our oceans and in every port, marina or yacht club there is always some pollution heavy areas based on the predominant wind and current directions,” they said.

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