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my name is Pete Solinsky and I'm the CEO of C bean project and we're here today in Val you know I'll marina here in San Francisco and we're just getting ready to put us even in the water steven is like a floating trash can and we put it in the water at marinas and we put on a floating dock and we pull them water in from the top and then we pump it out the bottom and then we filter the the debris and the trash and the oil with a filter in the middle of that the filters that we're using they're a fine mesh and it's at the moment they're polypropylene plastics so essentially we're using plastic to catch plastics with the current filter we're using we're catching micro plastics to two millimeters in size and we have developed the the filter using a finer mesh where we've been catching micro fibers so stuff that you you cannot see with them with the naked eye you need a microscope and that's something that we have under development as well debris and trash and the marina's is a much bigger problem that I think people realize and it doesn't necessarily come from our members or from within the trash is carried across the water and it comes in collects in these little pocket areas and marinas tend to be a good location for that it's gonna be food containers water bottles cigarette butts little pieces of like twine and just the stuff that you would see blowing around in any type of natural environment Stephen works 24/7 so it's an employee 24 hours a day for us and then we just come by periodically and it also collects a lot of the smaller stuff that we miss it's just a great opportunity for us to be able to do something that's positive for the environment we did a crowdfunding campaign and we raised a three hundred and sixty two thousand dollars and that gave us the kickstart to to start this whole project and so that was two years ago and now we have the commercial sea beans and it's ready to go in the water I think we have about 70 different countries with sea beans ordered and every day it's just more and more the interest is just it's huge the cost of the sea beans is 3,300 euros the maintenance costs is basically the electricity for running of the pump it's using 500 watts and it's only drawing four amps which means that it's quite a low energy consumption and yes it is adaptable that we can have it run by either solar power wind power or wave we also have some concepts that we've validated where we can get off the dock and into the oceans because the the technology is quite simple and it's very adaptable and so this is our 10 year plan so by 2027 we aim to be out offshore into the gyres you