yupa started a branch here in songkhla, after she was shocked by the rubbish problem, following somerking away. the first time that i came back to my home i said, "what happened with my hometown? why is it like this? everywhere is full of the trash." itjust made me think, i must do something for my hometown. so much plastic! yupin runs weekly cleanup sessions, and people of all ages and tourists are encouraged tojoin in. a cigarette lighter! cleaning the beaches of trash and tiny pieces of cigarettes seems an unending task. but the trash heroes here could soon have some help. why do we need a beach robot here? because there is too much trash. this place, where i grew up, so many tourists come to this beach, but if the beach gets dirty, no—one will want to come. so, i started this project. how does it actually work? the robot is digging in the sand about five centimetres deep. shaking to separate the sand and move the trash into the back. how much rubbish do you actually collect? if we do about 80 metres, we get about four kilograms of trash. four kilograms in 80 metres! ok, i'm dying

yupa started a branch here in songkhla after she was shocked by the rubbish problem, following some timeor my hometown. so much plastic! yupin runs weekly cleanup sessions, and people of all ages and tourists are encouraged tojoin in. this place, where i grew up, so many tourists come to this beach, but if the beach gets dirty, no—one will want to come. so i started this project. how does it actually work? the robot is digging in the sand about five centimetres deep. shaking to separate the sand and move the trash into the back. how much rubbish do you actually collect? if we do about 80 metres we get about four kilograms of trash. four kilograms in 80 metres! ok, i'm dying to have a go, to control it. sure. easy to control. forward and backwards, ok. turn left and right. this is the controller speed. if you push this down, it is digging in the sand. this is great. i'm cleaning the beach! dr a and his team are working on a second prototype that will separate the shells out from the trash. at the moment that has to be done by hand. we'll end this week in the historic city of florence, bir