New Seabin Devices Will Help to Clean The Tennessee River

Jennifer Flynn - The Pulse

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The Tennessee Department of Transportation has teamed up with Keep the Tennessee River Beautiful and other partners to establish a network of Seabin automated litter and debris removal devices across the Tennessee River watershed.

Seabin devices work continuously to skim and collect marine debris from the surface of the water. Each receptacle can remove up to 3,000 pounds of marine debris a year and will also filter out gasoline, oils, and microplastics from the water. The 17-Seabin deployment will be the world’s largest network of such devices in a river system.

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