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 the waste before it reaches the open oceans. So 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. The drones are of two types, the fully autonomous and the manual remote controlled ones. The WasteShark is designed for round-the-clock waste collection, and have a carrying capacity of 200 liters.

RanMarine currently operates in Netherlands and South Africa. It was founded by Richard Hardiman who is currently the CEO. The company is based in Rotterdam in Netherlands. 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.