The Thames Project: fishing plastic from our rivers
How does a floating bike help us reduce plastic pollution?
Imagine calmly walking through the riverside one summer evening, birds chirping, ducks swimming and a man biking on the water. Wait. Yes, you heard right. That’s precisely what Dhruv Boruah and his initiative The Thames Project are doing: cycling on water for a good cause, plastic littering 🚮.
This idea was born while our solution-driven adventurer sailed from London to Rio de Janeiro (in one of his crazy, out-of-the-comfort-zone trips) and realized how much plastic swam in our oceans . Out of the need to combine raising awareness about plastic pollution with a really powerful call-to-action, the floating handmade bike was designed 🚴.
Solo or with a interested team of people on kayaks, Dhruv cycles through rivers and canals collecting litter and analysing the content of microplastics in our water with a £20 microscope from Amazon, can it get any cooler than that?
Well, not only do they clean up our waterways but they also geo-tag all their findings in a map that allows the locals to see the impact they are having in their ecosystem. And of course, when he is not cycling he is giving workshops, conferences or creating high-value activities like the Plastic Hackathon that will take place in New York.
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