THIS FLOATING 'CONTINENT' IS SELF-SUSTAINABLE AND CLEANS THE OCEAN

Senior designer at Zaha Hadid Architects in London, Lenka Petráková, developed the idea for her student master thesis a few years ago after having studied ocean pollution.

"I realised how destroyed the oceans are and how many species are extinct, how much pollution is there, and that the parts that may have never seen a human being, feel the effects of our activities," she says.

According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), at least 8 million tonnes of plastic end up in the sea every year. And a majority of this plastic ends up in our food and body. On top of this, 100,000 marine mammals and turtles and 1 million sea birds are killed by plastic pollution annually.

Petráková reworked her ideas a few months ago and the final concept has just scooped her the 2020 Grand Prix award for architecture and innovation of the sea, at the competition launched by Foundation Jacques Rougerie.


https://www.euronews.com/living/2021/02/04/this-floating-continent-is-self-sustainable-and-cleans-the-ocean


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Agreed, this is a huge problem, and an important one to be reporting on.  Kudos to Ms. Petráková for writing a Masters Thesis on the subject.