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COLEGIO LOYOLA PARA LA CIENCIA Y LA INNOVACIÓN


10ª MUESTRA INSTITUCIONAL 2020
SEPARATING SOLID WASTE FROM SEA
JUSTIFICATION AND AMBIENTAL IMPACTS
THE BROTHERS
Members Throughout history, humans have damaged our
 ESTEBAN ARROYO VILLALBA planet only for an economic benefit, this has
 MAYCOL GOMEZ CARDONA had several prejudices throughout history,
 CAMILO SOTO ACEVEDO since our ecosystems and places on the planet
 SIMON MARIN HENAO lost their radiance because of the humans
 JUAN JOSE ZAPATA ROMAN themselves. reason to create the idea of ​a
Adviser project which is completely dedicated to the
 ALEX WILSON GARCIA AMAYA separation of solid waste in the seas of the
PROBLEM DESCRIPTION planet, since solid waste damages these spaces
The problem with our project is that 4500 tons and affects the life of those who live in it, it is
of microplastics are thrown into the sea each estimated that per year 28 thousand tons of
year, of which only 250 tons are collected and plastics and waste are thrown into the seas, so
recovered, which makes the world and we committed to the separation of 2 tons
maritime ecosystems suffer from annually, to improve the quality of life of living
environmental impacts. beings in maritime ecosystems, another reason
why we chose this project is why, this also
affects many more factors such as global
warming.

RESEARCH QUESTION
How to separate solid waste
from the seas?

OBJETIVE GENERAL AND SPECIFIC ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The general objective of the team the brothers LUZ MARINA SIERRA, ALEX WILSON GARCIA
with this project is to reduce the level of AMAYA
microplastics in the seas and oceans of the BIBLIOGRAPHY
world, making use of a small device, which will https://www.nationalgeographicla.com/planeta
be responsible for collecting the microplasts, by -o-plastico/2019/04/los-microplasticos-tambien
means of a grid of 55 millimeters which will be -estan-presentes-en-el-aire
in charge of collecting the plastics, without https://www.iberdrola.com/medio-
damaging the maritime ecosystem or the ambiente/microplasticos-amenaza-para-la-
integrity of the species that inhabit it salud

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