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An organization in Boca Raton has a solution to keep South Florida Beaches clean- a solar powered robot. 4Ocean’s “BeBot” is a remote-control cleaning robot that sifts small pieces of plastic from the sand to keep the coastlines clean.
“So, the BeBot is a solar-powered and battery-powered beach cleaning robot. It’s remote control, and it sifts microplastic from the sand and smaller pieces of plastic from the sand and collects them into a container. So it’s designed to help clean coastlines of small pieces of plastic,” explained Alex Schulze, 4ocean’s cofounder.
The company will be testing the BeBot on beaches across South Florida over the next few weeks.