This is inspiring! We all need to be thinking of ways to minimize waste and pollution.
During the rainy season, thousands of tons of trash wash down the Rio Motagua and into the Gulf of Honduras every year. Our work to end plastic pollution in this part of the Western Caribbean Sea started with Interceptor Trashfence deployment in 2022... But it failed. The following year, we deployed the Interceptor Barricade, a tailored solution for this location to withstand these yearly, exceptionally high-pressure trash tsunamis. We estimated that Interceptor 006 was successfully stopping about 60-70% of the pollution flowing down into the Gulf of Honduras. To address the remaining leakage, we deployed Interceptor 021 further downstream. And to date, intercepted over 23,600,000 kg of trash. Will the two deployments combined be enough to return the Gulf of Honduras to its original, pristine state?