A team of ‘Searial Cleaners’ tackles beach litter

18 September 2020, the European Union set a threshold for washed up marine waste on beaches: fewer than 20 items of debris every 100 metres. Under this threshold, the beach is considered to be in good ecological condition. The Union is now asking member states to roll out strategies for the protection of the marine environment and has set a concrete objective for beaches, drawn up in compliance with the Marine Strategy Framework Directive.

In this context, Poralu Marine, a manager, designer and manufacturer of aluminium marinas launched The Searial Cleaners, the first range of shoreline waste collectors. For 35 years the company has been an active player in the territorial development of natural shorelines, making them more accessible to people. The quality and the neutrality of Poralu Marine’s products are part of its DNA and bear witness to the company’s consideration of the direct impact of human activity on these fragile zones. For several years it has observed how littoral zones, or shorelines, have been increasingly damaged with the passing of time.

The BeBot from the Searial Cleaners range is an automated beach cleaning robot. Not only does BeBot help protect the environment, but it does so without polluting: it is the only fully electric beach cleaner on the market, using both batteries and solar panels. It therefore emits no greenhouse gases.

Thanks to its technology, widely acclaimed by the scientific community, it protects fauna buried under the sand, notably turtle eggs. It helps prevent beach erosion and does not weaken beach subsoils.

To fine clean the sand, the cleaner robot is steered by remote control, which helps protect both the user and the environment. This silent multi-purpose robot can pull loads of up to 1000kg or be fitted with a trailer to transport parasols, deckchairs, and so on. Both easy to use and autonomous, the robot greatly facilitates the work of its users.

As part of a framework agreement with the Italian company Niteko, Poralu Marine manufactures, markets and distributes this product throughout the world via a network of partners on every continent.

Poralu’s range also includes a floating drone, a bubble barrier and a manned waste collecting boat.

By Jake Frith