https://hakaimagazine.com/news/using-trash-to-track-other-trash/
"Australia’s vast coastline is littered with marine debris. From burst balloons
and countless straws to plastic drink bottles, styrofoam, and fishing lines,
all sorts of trash ends up on the country’s beaches, and Heidi Tait, cofounder
of the nonprofit Tangaroa Blue, has combed through it all. But as the old adage
says, some trash is actually treasure—provided you look at it from the right
perspective. In this case, Tait and the Tangaroa Blue volunteers working to
clean up Australia’s beaches unexpectedly accumulated a trove of strange
tire-shaped capsules scattered along the Cape York coast, near Australia’s
northeastern tip.
When Tait and her teammates started finding the capsules washed ashore, they
weren’t quite sure what they were looking at. But by busting one open, looking
at the company names listed inside, and making a few calls, Tait eventually
connected with Satlink—a Spanish satellite communications company. Satlink’s
GPS-enabled buoys, the ones the beach cleaners kept finding, help commercial
fishers track their nets, lines, and other gear.
Tait’s partner, Brett Tait, Tangaroa Blue’s circular economy developer, had a
brainwave that would see the buoys not just recycled but reused."
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Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
