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Kailua man targets microplastics in beach campaign

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Ray Aivazian III has invented a wheelbarrowlike machine that removes microplastics from the beach. Plastic floats to the top of the water in the wheelbarrow, and Aivazian skims it off. He is at Kalama Beach in Kailua.

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Aivazian filled his wheelbarrowlike contraption with sand and water at Kalama Beach in Kailua on Jan. 4.

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PHOTO COURTESY RAY AVAZIAN

Some of the plastics collected by Alvazian.

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Ray Aivazian III has built a machine that removes microplastics from the beach.

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Plastic floats to the top of the water in the invention Ray Aivazian III created to separate microplastics from the sand.