WasteShark™

RanMarine Technology, the maker of Waste Shark® is based in Netherlands, and is handling the problem of water pollution by collecting and removing waste from the waters.

Their drones are designed to capture waste before it reaches the open oceans. Waste Shark has been designed to work in narrow, confined areas inland and near the coast like canals, ports, marinas, canals, lagoons, lakes, and rivers. The drones are called Wastesharks as they have been inspired by whale sharks, one of nature's best cleaners. 
Fitted with software, these machines can collect plastic and microplastic waste, alien vegetation (e.g. duckweed), floating debris, chemicals, measure the water depth, temperature, and water quality, and search and report. The parameters monitored in water quality are numerous and include, pH, ORP, conductivity, dissolved oxygen, turbidity, ammonium, chloride, nitrate, salinity, mV, ORP, TDS, and resistivity.

RanMarine drones are also learning machines, continuously gathering data from the environment, transmitting this data to a centralized database on dry land, and communicating with each other in the water. So, the drones are an autonomous, responsive, self-organizing net. There are two types of drones, the fully autonomous and the manually remote controlled. The WasteShark is designed for round-the-clock waste collection and has a carrying capacity of 200 liters.

RanMarine partners and supports UN's Clean Seas campaign and the Plastic Soup Foundation missions and their CEO has given talks on TED about this new technology.

Vectra Advanced Engineering Private Limited (VAEPL) is bringing to India the WasteShark®, to simultaneously eat garbage and collect environmental data.