The seabins in the Cape Fear River have cleaned a lot of trash and seagrass, the latter of which often has micro bits of plastic in it. (Port City Daily/Courtesy of Keep New Hanover Beautiful)
WILMINGTON In a little over a month, 132.3 pounds of trash and seagrass have been removed from the Cape Fear River. Local environmental organization Keep New Hanover Beautiful (KNHB) installed two seabins at the end of November at Port City Marina at Pier 33 in downtown Wilmington.
Essentially floating trash receptacles, the seabins created over the last three years by two water lovers in Australia were awarded by the nonprofit’s parent organization Keep America Beautiful. Three affiliates, including ones in Ohio and Tennessee, are among some of the first to try out the environmental technology that aims to rid oceans of plastics worldwide.