Minimizing the environmental impacts of this ship was one of the key concerns of the design team since the beginning. Manta’s technical development is led by MANTA INNOVATION, a French company which sole shareholder is the association The SeaCleaners. Its design has been focusing on many innovative technologies in the field of renewable energy production or by limiting its global carbon footprint and maximizing the energy self-sufficiency. The flagship project initiated by The SeaCleaners is the MANTA, the first seagoing vessel capable of collecting and processing in continuous flow large quantities of macro plastic waste floating at the surface of oceans. The SeaCleaners is an association founded to provide global, long-term and worldwide solutions for fighting against ocean plastic pollution. With the consequence that the smaller the fragment, the easier it is for it to disseminate into living species and water that humans absorb too. Moreover, during this very very long period it will progressively be decomposed into increasingly tiny plastic fragments. Plastic wastes, by taking between 450 and 500 years to be eliminated “naturally”, kill 1 million birds, and 100 000 marine mammals each year. If we don’t take action, in 2050, there will be more plastic than fishes in the oceans! More than 8 million tons of plastic are dumped in the oceans every year.
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