Smart Buoys to Track Plastic Waste in the White Sea

“The buoy will symbolically represent a plastic bottle left on the shore and then carried away by ocean currents. At that point, the plastic becomes a foreign element within the coastal ecosystem and will likely never leave it. It may drift for long periods before eventually washing up on a remote beach, where it can slowly break down into microplastics over hundreds of years. Using satellite tracking, we will monitor the buoy’s movement and demonstrate the path that discarded coastal waste can travel,” said project head Alina Kravchenko.