{"id":1034736,"date":"2022-03-25T23:18:28","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T23:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/25\/watch-florida-non-profit-cleaning-beaches-with-litter-sifting-robot\/"},"modified":"2022-03-25T23:18:28","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T23:18:28","slug":"watch-florida-non-profit-cleaning-beaches-with-litter-sifting-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/25\/watch-florida-non-profit-cleaning-beaches-with-litter-sifting-robot\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Florida non-profit cleaning beaches with litter-sifting robot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Florida-non-profit-cleaning-beaches-with-litter-sifting-robot.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"o6x4sNIBJCs\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Will the beach cleaning robot ruin beach vibes? Florida&#039;s Fourth Estate finds out\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o6x4sNIBJCs?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">March 25 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> A Florida nonprofit has enlisted the help of a unique robot to clean cigarette butts, bottle caps and other small pieces of litter from the state&#8217;s beaches.<\/p>\n<p>The nonprofit Keep Florida Beautiful said the beach cleaning robot, BeBot, was donated to the group by Surfing&#8217;s Evolution and Preservation Foundation.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is meant to go over soft dry sand and it sifts the very top layer of sand, removing very small pieces of debris that are often missed in manual cleanups,&#8221; Savanna Christy, executive director of Keep Florida Beautiful, told WKMG-TV.<\/p>\n<p>Christy said the robot is not yet sensitive enough to clear microplastics, which measure 5 millimeters and smaller, but it can sift out anything larger than a squared centimeter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It does pick up plastic fragments, bottle caps, cigarette butts, plastic straws, food wrappers &#8212; you name it, it&#8217;s picking it up and sifting it out of the sand,&#8221; Christy said.<\/p>\n<p>Keep Florida Beautiful is the first nonprofit in the nation to use the remote-controlled robot for beach cleaning, the organization said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 25 (UPI) &#8212; A Florida nonprofit has enlisted the help of a unique robot to clean cigarette butts, bottle caps and other small pieces of litter from the state&#8217;s beaches. The nonprofit Keep Florida Beautiful said the beach cleaning robot, BeBot, was donated to the group by Surfing&#8217;s Evolution and Preservation Foundation. &#8220;It is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1034737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}