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A special-edition Over Coffee®podcast, featuring one of our top episodes of 2022! "It's quite fun, to be honest," says WasteShark creator Richard Hardiman. He's talking about watching his autonomous drone clean plastic from bodies of water--not unlike a popular game where the main character "eats" enemies. And with climate change at the forefront of numerous conversations today, Richard, who is the founder and CEO of Netherlands-base RanMarine Technology, has been creating a series of innovations to help heal the planet. When we first spoke in January 2022, Richard and his team had just exhibited the WasteShark at CES® 2022, in Las Vegas. The WasteShark wowed attendees with its capabilities to act like a "vacuum", clearing floating pollution from lakes, harbors, ponds and waterways. WasteShark also won a CES® Innovation Award. But the truly exciting news: this particular robot is just the beginning for RanMarine Technology.Richard previewed the company's additional innovations--inclu