This Short Documentary Follows The Day Of A 90-Year-Old Fisherman Who Collects Plastic From The Ocean In Bali
With around 8 million tons of plastic ending up in the oceans every year , plastic pollution is a problem that simply cannot be ignored. Discarded bottles, bags, and other waste can be found even in the most remote corners of the world, disturbing the habitats of animals, and people too.
To show just how much plastic pollution impacts the lives of people, American filmmaker Dana Frankoff produced a short documentary titled Voice Above Water . The documentary tells the story of a 90-year-old Balinese fisherman named Wayan Nyo who can no longer fish on the shores of the island due to all of the plastic waste floating in the ocean.
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American filmmaker Dana Frankoff produced a short documentary titledVoice Above Watertelling the story of a 90-year-old Balinese fisherman
In the documentary, Wayan says he’s been studying the art of fishing since he was just 10 years old and learned the skill by himself.
The man says that he loves the ocean and has always dreamt of living by it.
Wayan recalled the days when he was spearfishing as a teenager and catching fishes too big to fit on his small boat. Sadly, these days the fisherman can no longer catch these big fish anymore as the plastic waste simply drove them all away.
Fed up with all the plastic getting caught in his net, the man decided to put it all on his boat and bring it to the shore. One day Wayan met someone from Java who agreed to take all of the plastic waste that he fished out of the ocean and get it recycled.
The fisherman says that he wants his island to be back to how it was before and believes the problem can only be solved if the people work together.
Wayan says he will only stop worrying about the ocean once he dies.
Watch the full documentary below
VOICE ABOVE WATER from Dana Frankoff on Vimeo
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20-Year-Old Engineer’s Idea To Make Ocean Clean Itself Will Be Launched Next Year
Boyan Slat is a 20 year old with an idea on how to clean plastic trash from our oceans. The Ocean Cleanup initiative wants to reduce the amount of trash in the oceans by employing floating barriers that are moored to the seabed. They would collect lighter-than-water plastic trash with the help of the ocean currents and without harming sea life.
The pilot, which will be deployed near Tsushima Island (located between Japan and Korea) in the first quarter of 2016, will test the durability and viability of the project. It will be only 2000 meters long, a far cry from the planned 100 kilometers length, but it will still be the longest floating structure on Earth.
Cleaning up plastic garbage in ocean, like the infamous Great Pacific Garbage Patch, is impractical with ships. However, the 100km stationary cleanup array could remove 42% of the Garbage Patch over 10 years, 70,320,000kg in total.
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When it’s deployed in 2016, the 2,000m floating line will become the longest floating structure in the world.
This concept will test out 20-year-old Boyan Slat’s plan to rid the oceans of floating plastic waste.
This plan would use ocean currents to skim the plastic trash without harming the sea life.
The eventual Ocean Cleanup Array would be a 100km long and able to collect 70,320,000kg of plastic waste over 10 years
Estimated clean up cost would be roughly 4.53 euros (5.04 USD) per kilogram – 3% of the cost of other potential clean-up methods
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