Automatic Remote Control based Surface Level Marine Debris Cleaning and Signaling

Abstract

Marine debris in the water bodies is one of the major issues prevailing in our world, where 8.8 million metric tons of plastic waste are being dumped each year. The main objective of our system is to make an autonomous system which can clean the surface level solid waste (plastic, wood and metal) in the ocean, in addition it aims at collecting more waste at a time. Our idea proposes to allow the ocean water to flow through the water inlet. The water inlet has been designed with an escalator mechanism such that it dumps the waste in the container which is also fitted with a crusher at it sides to crush the waste almost in order to collect more waste. Since the ship is guided through the remote control, this technique involves no manual contrivance to clean the plastics that float on the apparent level of the ocean.