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Removal to disposal ship.

Our design to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, without killing the wildlife in the ocean, is a system that will be placed in the worst areas where the garbage is collecting the most. On both sides of the system there would be barriers in the water around the system collecting the garbage so the tides would push the garbage right into the system. The machine would run with the help of solar panels on top of the machine collecting sun for most of the day so it can run during the night time when it is dark out. To not disrupt and kill the wildlife surrounding the system we would place a sonar device that would keep the fish away from the site so they would not flow into the system. Then the garbage would shoot out of a tube into a dumpster connected to the system and once the dumpster is full two boats will come, one to pick up the full dumpster and one to replace it. The dumpster will be fairly large so that the boats won't have to come by to the site often. Once the boat brings it back to land the garbage will be shipped to a thermal waste treatment plant that could heat up the plastic and metals and the other garbage to create steam that is used as energy to power different things. The location of where the plant would be turning the garbage into energy is in California and is called the Encia Water Waste Authority. This plant would provide a clean way to get rid of the trash and also have a clean energy source.