Patent pending

mk.2.2

The Solar Powered Robot for Extracting Microplastics from Water using Ferrofluid (SPREM) is an aquatic robot which uses magnetised Ferrofluid to collect plastic particles from water, utilising the bond made between a mixture of oil (for instance vegetable, olive, engine, etc.) and Magnetite (Iron Oxide), and the oil-based plastic particles which a given body of water is replete with.
Using the collected microplastics to manufacture 3D printer filament means SPREM can be reproduced by 3D printing. SPREM could be implemented at water sources or fish farms, in groups referred to as 'shoals' or 'cells'.

Mark's m8 from the M1 responds to the device:

The Solar Powered Robot for Extracting Micro-plastics lays dormant in the night, it suckles slowly through deep crepuscular ocean.
A King Mackerel glimmers with moonlight, steadfast movement and staccato swallowing shuffled through the current.
The mackerel caresses the robot. There, gills collide and stroke with the solar panels, a reflection of self they move into each other.
Hips gyrate complex geometry as old as deep sea volcano life itself is shown sizzling here.
The robots metal becomes truly wet for the first time. They move slowly, floating. The merging of fish to robot. Organisms organising together into a horizontal flattened organ, one solar powered meat thing flexing full.
The mackerel and the robot disengage. The sea feels endless and is a pale hue of grey and green.

Henry Parkin