Capturing water runoff pollution before it enters water systems.
Guerrilla.Co has designed a novel gully pot to capture pollution and debris in water runoff without the need for membranes, electricity or moving parts.
30% of all ocean pollution is created by surface water runoff, making it the single largest source of city pollution to the environment. When it rains, debris of human activity washes away from the built environment and roads into ineffective drainage systems.
With toxicity comparable to sewage, this runoff is a cocktail of road, tyre, and brake wear, microplastics, toxic hydrocarbons, heavy metals, pathogens etc. and is discharged into water bodies untreated, damaging aquatic ecosystems and human health.
The Guerrilla patent-pending gully pot is versatile, the first iteration works with various sized existing roadside drains which can efficiently capture pollutants without reducing the throughput capacity of the drain.
The founding team Summer Chen and Adhesh Shenoy are Innovation Design Engineering graduates.
