Serpentine Canal 01 (large)
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Serpentine Canal 01 (large)
The charitable organization, the Laudato Si Challenge Foundation, sponsored the installation of two Ocean Strainers at the Serpentine Canal, Borella, in January 2022. A local entrepreneur collects the PET waste and resells it to a private sector plastic recycler. The rest of the waste is cleared by the Sri Lanka Land Development Corporation, which sends most of it to a waste-to-energy generation facility. As of October 2022, the larger Strainer at the Serpentine will divert an estimated 139,100 kilograms of waste from the ocean each year.
Serpentine Canal 01 (large)