During the winter storms, waves caused one of the interceptor's booms to tear. The collector is partially operational as it awaits a replacement boom.
As winter storms pounded the West Coast, the crews operating the Ballona Creek Trash Interceptor 007 saw the extreme conditions as a test forNow that the skies have cleared, the results have become apparent: The interceptor has collected significant amounts of floating trash but also has been seriously damaged.
Interceptor 007 is one of a handful of trash collectors developed by the Dutch nonprofit the Ocean Cleanup. The organization is funded mostly from private donors, a spokesman told The Times. Its mission is to remove 90% of all floating plastic in the world’s oceans by 2040. “The boom became entangled with one of the mooring lines,” Lee continued. Mooring lines connect a vessel to a stationary point on the shore to prevent it from moving.
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