Great news for Mae Nam Chao Phraya river-lovers. Soon they will no longer have to pretend not to notice that the old girl has a bit of a beauty problem. She’s been breaking out in unsightly and polluting plastic and Styrofoam spots for too long. Worse, it all ends up in the ocean where it takes approx. 450 years to break down, impacting marine life and potentially human health.
But thankfully treatment is now on the way after an agreement was inked on a searingly hot Thursday 31 March 2022 between The Ocean Cleanup, a data-and research-driven non-profit organisation developing and scaling technologies to rid the world’s oceans of plastic, and Ecomarine, a subsidiary of ASIMAR, Thailand’s leading shipyard, that provides solutions to problems stemming from marine pollution. Under the MoU, they will import, assemble and launch an “Interceptor™” that will trap and take out the trash good and proper.
