It is also currently using the Geotube Dewatering Technology that produces high volume reduction and retention of solids.

The fishing and farming sector remains one of the Sultanate of Oman’s major employers. The south-western Dhofar region, where the major port city of Salalah is located, is Oman’s second most-productive agricultural zone after the Al Batinah coastal plain, found in the north-western corner between Muscat and the UAE.

George’s experience: Easy enough, but I can’t say my flowers and veggies performed any better than ones that didn’t get any compost tea. I saw no noticeable difference in my with vs. without plants.

“I think we … would do things a little different,” conceded Shurtleff. He explained that the DAF project was always part of the plan, but engineering and installation of the unit “took longer than we anticipated…. Unfortunately we can’t buy this equipment off the shelf. It’s taken too long.

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Then Slat made his pitch. In the next twelve months, he and a staff of engineers at the Ocean Cleanup, an organization he founded in 2013, would build the system they had designed, assemble it in a yard on San Francisco Bay, then set sail with it, travelling under the Golden Gate Bridge and out into the Pacific. Slat’s destination was the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, midway between California and Hawaii, an area within what is known as the North Pacific Subtropical Convergence Zone. The patch is not, as is often believed, a solid island of trash but a gyre, twice the size of Texas, where winds and currents draw diffuse floating debris onto a vast carrousel that never stops.

“Our reaction is, even if you’re within standards, any level of chromium in drinking water is a concern,” McLane said. “If I handed you a glass of water and said, ‘There’s only a little bit of toxic pollution,’ you wouldn’t drink it.”

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They pulled the fibers out in thick wet bundles, like flaxen hair twisting down a woman’s back, and hung them out to dry under the sun before they would be trucked off to the mills.

Slat’s original idea—using the ocean’s currents to do the work of collecting trash—has remained the foundation of his design, but almost everything else has changed. His first blueprint, presented at the TEDx talk in 2012, owed more to science fiction than to reality: a chain of manta-ray-shaped stations that would passively funnel trash into their bellies. In this model, an underwater system of mooring lines would anchor the entire structure to the seabed, fifteen thousand feet below.

One such project under way is a fishery harbour in Taqah, some 35km east of Salalah. In the first instance, the facility will serve local fishermen and yachtsmen, but the plan is to transfrom it into a localised marine and tourist centre. The site will eventually include facilities to complement the fishery harbour and marina, such as a maintenance yard, fish market, ice factory, administrative buildings and retail and leisure offerings.