Ship&Offshore | Issue 08/2012
Transforming marine plastic pollution into fuel
RECYCLING | The Canadian non-profit organisation Upcycle the Gyres Society (UGS) is at the forefront of collecting plastic waste from the oceans for recycling. To this end it is designing the first floating eco-research upcycling facility (FERUF), writes José Luis Gutiérrez-García, co-founder and project director of UGS.