Research, Mapping and Subsequent Control of Waste in Water Bodies

Abstract

In recent decades, there has been a sharp increase in waste that pollutes the environment. The largest share in them is nondegradable plastic waste. Most of them are located in the water bodies of the continents or in the ocean. Mankind faces the challenge of saving the world or destroying it. Only this year in Bulgaria along the rivers Iskar, Mesta, Danube, Yantra and others was observed accumulation of huge amounts of household and plastic waste. It was even necessary to organize the raking and transportation of these floating masses to the legal landfills. These events prompted the representatives of the Curious Club to propose the creation of a prototype, which on its own floating on water bodies to capture the state of the environment, the presence of unregulated landfills and waste, as well as the discharge of wastewater from illegal sewers. This device will collect and transmit information that club members will map and systematize. We are also proposing the introduction of a method imposed last year in Australia for the use of wastewater netting. We will also use our knowledge after the equipment of the astronomical club both for monitoring space debris and for the growing areas of floating islands of plastic waste in the world's oceans. Technologies that are innovative and have a future to solve these global problems are used. These things can be solved with our enthusiasm and financial support of economic entities interested in the cleanliness of the environment.