Water pollution is a prevalent issue around the world. Trash, plastics, and chemicals are all sources that feed into this problem. The specific issue that our team is focusing on is trash built up on the shoreline. On the shoreline, trash can collect up on rocks and sands creating islands of trash and plastic. Our project goal is to try and help improve this situation by creating a device to help remove the built up trash and debris on the shoreline of the ocean. In doing so we wish to help make the shorelines cleaner for both the animals and humans who need that water to live.

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Creator

• Queeney, Kellen

Subject

• Sustainability
• Well-Being
• Environment
• Water

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 118224
• E-project-030424-131340

Advisor

• Aloi, Vincent
• Bertozzi, Nicholas
• Guceri, Selcuk

Year

• 2024

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• 6 - Clean Water and Sanitation
• 14 - Life Below Water

Date created

• 2024-03-04

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Mechanical Engineering

Source

• E-project-030424-131340

Rights statement

• In Copyright