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“Marine Litter Hunter” Autonomous Plastic Collector

DEME Environmental Contractors The DEME test set-up consists of a navigating work boat, the “Marine Lit- (DEC) is installing a plastic collec- ? xed installation that passively collects ter Hunter” intercepts waste and pushes tor on the river Scheldt on behalf of ? oating and suspended waste from the it to a collection pontoon. The waste the Vlaamse Waterweg (the Flemish water and a mobile system that actively is collected in the collection pontoon, authority responsible for waterways in collects bigger pieces of waste. The test where a crane equipped with a grab

Flanders). A combination of a ? xed and phase, that will start in February 2020, transfers the waste into a container.

mobile installation will be tested for a is being carried out in cooperation with The ? xed crane is operated remotely year to collect waste from the water. To the University of Antwerp and the In- by an operator using virtual reality tackle the increasing problem of river stitute for Nature and Forestry Manage- and 3D vision technology. When the pollution, the Vlaamse Waterweg is ment (Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosbe- container is full, the work boat takes joining forces with the business world heer). The mobile installation consists this autonomously to the docking sta- to test the concept of waste collectors of a smart detection system, a work tion, where it is unloaded by a transfer on the river Scheldt. After a call from boat that can navigate autonomously crane on the quay. The “Marine Litter the Vlaamse Waterweg to companies to and a charging point. Floating waste is Hunter” is fully CO2-neutral and moors submit an innovative proposal, DEME detected using arti? cial intelligence by autonomously at the docking station to proposed a project for collecting waste smart cameras that are installed on the charge.

by the Temse-Bornem Scheldt bridges. old Temse bridge. An autonomously www.deme-group.com

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