If the bags tear, wind and rain can carry trash into ... adding that boats plowing through the barrier could potentially drag plastic along. “There are certain limitations, but as I see it ...

So rather than having the u-shaped barrier wait while the faster-moving plastic washes into its arms, it has been flipped around to play a more active role. Driven by the wind and waves ...

The system's centerpiece is a nearly 2,000-foot-long plastic tube with a 10-foot skirt attached beneath, forming a U-shaped barrier designed to be propelled by wind and waves. Its aim is to collec ...

(Eve Zuckoff/CAI) Experts from Provincetown’s Center for Coastal Studies say wind and waves ... Enter: the red plastic flood barrier — a temporary structure meant to be set up and taken ...

“Sometimes the system actually moves slightly slower than the plastic ... it catches more wind and waves to help it go faster, he said. A ship towed the 2,000-foot-long barrier in September ...

surface waves and wind. And this speed differential is key, because the challenge isn't just to gather plastic waste within the giant barrier, but hold it there for long periods without human ...

Look closely at the landscape, though, and you’ll see the place is covered in plastic. Between November ... “So they can go through the blood-brain barrier potentially in exactly the same ...