What’s That Giant Sucking Noise At The Harbor?

What’s That Giant Sucking Noise At The Harbor?

If anything slips through our beach clean-ups, hopefully it gets sucked up by our marine trash skimmer. Installed this month in Stamford Harbor off the Harbor Point boardwalk, this first trash skimmer in Connecticut can collect up to 50 pounds of debris per day, including the micro-debris in the water that we don’t even notice. It looks a little like a floating dumpster, but this floating dumpster was recently featured on CBS Radio.  

What Can We Learn From Our Trash?

Just as the Pacific Gyre is strangely mesmerizing, it’s hard not to be fascinated right here at home by the downstream detritus from our daily lives. Working with school, corporate and volunteer groups, we will sort and count the debris collected by the trash skimmer to understand its makeup and its source so we can all learn upstream habits that will prevent debris from ever reaching Long Island Sound. Want to get your school or corporate team involved in this unique research project? Contact us at volunteer@soundwaters.org. SoundWaters marine trash skimmer is made possible with funding from Clean Ocean Access and 11th Hour Racing.