Trash Machine

When people litter, the trash can end up polluting bodies of water like lakes or oceans. To keep our water clean, people need to stop littering and also clean up the trash that is already there. What kind of machine can you invent to collect trash from a river, lake, ocean, or another body of water?

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Nate & Deysi's Favorite Designs

my design is a net that is attached to two rods that where recycled, the ocean current will sweep litter into the net and the litter will be frequently checked on.

the de - lite… meatman10

161 stickers

We like that this net is made from recycled materials. What material will you use in your trash machine design?


sub picker upper is a submarine that has robotic arms on the outside so it can pick up trash in the ocean, then it stores the trash in a compartment, and then it ether puts it in the recycling bin or the dump!

sub picker upp… iceshards510

204 stickers

This submarine can collect lots of trash! How will you power this machine to travel through the water?


scooper scoops up trash by its scooper so we can have a cleaner sea! it has a trap door on the bottom so if it accidentally picks up fish, they can go back in the sea!

scooper! iceshards510

212 stickers

The trap door on this scooping machine keeps animals safe while it cleans. How else can you make sure that plants and animals don’t get caught?


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