Local October 28, 2019 | 11:24 am

Cleanup ‘Interceptor’ coming to trash-plagued river

Santo Domingo.- The non-profit organization The Ocean Cleanup will deploy its fourth ocean and river cleanup prototype, “Interceptor 4,” on the Ozama River, at Dominican Republic’s capital;.

The announcement was made on October 26 by the CEO and founder of the organization, Boyan Slat.

Four Interceptors have been built to date; Two systems are already operational in Jakarta (Indonesia) and Klang (Malaysia).

A third system is at Can Tho in the Mekong Delta (Vietnam), while the fourth is intended to be deployed in Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic), the NGO said a press release.

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