Solutions to tackle your Urban Plastic Soup problems
Innovative methods and techniques on an European scale
Discover our proven solutions
These methods and techniques have proven effective in multiple projects. We have experience in implementing it at 30+ locations inside and outside the Netherlands, from start to finish. Our team is capable of arranging the full scope of your Urban Plastic Soup challenge: from project approach to project management. And from strategic advice to building and deploying collection systems.
Monitoring plastic pollution
To solve a problem, you must first understand it properly. We help you comprehend how plastic pollution behaves in your area. We provide insight into the sources, transport, and locations where plastic accumulates.Various methods and techniques provide insight into potential hotspot locations, the degree of contamination of your area, and the flux of plastic at crucial points in your wetland.
Tracing the Plastic Route
This technology provides insight into plastic hotspots & routes, with monitoring in dashboards and maps. This serves as a basis for an effective approach in tackling the urban plastic soup.
Litter Monitoring with AI
This setup provides, with the help of artificial intelligence models, insight into the plastic inflow (flux) and how it is distributed across the waterway from quay to quay.
Monitoring Microplastics
With the help of our MicroSampler and the microplastic monitoring networks, we sample waterways to determine the amount of microparticles per square kilometer.
Collecting plastic waste
With the insight gained from monitoring activities, we can help you to remove plastic from your water. To do this, we use insights on the quantities of plastic and the transport profiles of the plastic in your area. We remove plastic pollution with our systems: The CanalCleaner is a system designed for inner-city areas and harbours. The CirCleaner can be deployed at high water current areas like punping stations and in tidal areas in harbours. And we can also help you optimize the navigation routes of work boats in cities.
CirCleaner: Our River & Harbour solution
This cleverly designed system is suitable for removing plastics from the water at pumping stations, canals, and rivers in a sustainable and fish-friendly manner.
CanalCleaner: Our Urban Solution
This economic collection system, CanalCleaner, efficiently collects plastic waste in cities and marinas, areas with less water flow but a strong influence of wind.
Preventive Solution
To ensure that we can definitively stop the urban plastic soup problem in water, we are gathering new information from the removed plastic. With these insights on quantities and types of plastic removed, new preventive campaigns can be launched or new policies developed to tackle plastic preventively. We present the insights to you in the ForSea dashboard. This always provides insight into the size and possibilities of preventive approaches to the urban plastic soup challenge. Together, we aim to take local and national measures to tackle the urban plastic soup.
OSPAR Identification
The results of this analysis provide insight into the origin of plastic pollution, enabling us to continuously improve the positioning of our solutions.
ForSee Dashboard
Noria provides an infographic overview of plastic pollution in the governing area of its client. This information helps the decision makers to take suitable interventions.
Serious Game
Noria developed a Serious game that could be played by a wide range of stakeholders, including decision makers, to increase awareness of plastic pollution.