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by  N.Morgan Technology can be utilized to solve many of the world’s biggest problems. Pollution in the world’s waterways has become one of the most serious challenges that our species is facing, and creative solutions are going to be needed in order to solve this problem. People from all over the world have recognized this issue and have been working hard to come up with their own ideas to clean trash from oceans and other bodies of water.  One device currently being used in Baltimore, Maryland may be something that is eventually employed on a larger scale. The device is a solar-powered water wheel that is connected to a conveyor belt. The wheel works by lifting trash and debris out of the water using a ‘debris raking system’, which transfers the collected items onto a conveyer belt and then into a large dumpster. Although the device is powered by the water that flows through it, the device is also hooked up to a solar generator so that it requires no outside source...

by  N.Morgan Slowly, the Earth and the oceans are becoming huge trash heaps. We are killing mother Nature and the situation has taken a wrong turn. Tons of industrial, domestic, and commercial waste are released into the environment every day. Will Earth survive? A 2016 stats that 7 billion people produce 320 millions tons of plastic. This number will double by 2034. More than 100,000 marine animals died as a result of plastic pollution in waters. Plastic is non-biodegradable and takes hundreds of years to decompose. Tons of dangerous chemicals and gases are leached into the environment, and we die. Animals die. Plants die. Plastic pollution affects the quality of the soil and it’s no longer safe for cultivation. Plastic straws aren’t the largest contributor to plastic waste but definitely represent a big problem. Americans use 500 million plastic straws every day, and 8.3 billion of these end up on beaches. Plastic straws make 4% of plastic wast...