Vehicle costs $700k, and including transport and installation to site maybe $1m. They want to put 1000 at the 1000 biggest river mouths.
Why does it cost so much? Can't they just use a couple existing boats to drag the line across and the other to harvest the waste?
A lot of garbage doesn't float, like plastic bags and diapers.
Some say politicians don't want to actually reduce pollution, because that decreases the need for spending on pollution.
What is the effect of this on the ecosystem? Doesn't it need the non-garbage things washed down to the ocean during rainfalls?
Most of the garbage harvested in the 35k tonnes appeared to be sticks and twigs.
The river is not a commercially frequented one, so there are questions about how this can be implemented on others that are, like Frisco Bay.