Stopping Ocean Plastic Pollution at its Source | WILD HOPE

[@naturepbs]

Join us LIVE on-site in Guatemala at the mouth of the Rio Las Vacas River on Thursday, July 25 at 11 am ET. In conjunction with this WILD HOPE episode, get an inside look at what's happening on the ground to keep plastics out of our oceans! The event will be hosted by The Ocean Cleanup's Dan van der Kooy and Inceptor 006's Guillermo Sosa, and moderated by our own digital lead Danielle Broza. Come ask us your questions!

[@EattheApple666]

One of the best organizations ever created. Thank you "The Ocean Cleanup" team.

[@janasedlakova9135]

Love love love!! Thank God for giving you brain and the courage to do it!!!! Thank you 🙏🏻❤️🎁

[@barbarabauling7513]

WELL DONE Ocean Cleanup!!!! Boyan Slat you are a national hero! If you were living in the UK your name would be on the Honours List! You totally deserve it.

[@kjeleharrison3249]

The first system was tested near San Francisco, CA. I remember reading a local paper in which some "Supposed Expert Professor" was dismissing the effort. However, the person had no solution for cleaning the oceans. They just kept insisting on dealing with land-based trash. I think we can all agree that this problem requires an all-hands-on deck approach. Keep up the good work!

[@huldu]

It's not an easy solvable problem and just DOING something for the sake of doing it can cause far more harm, that's the problem. To truly get rid of plastics you have to get people to stop using it and good luck with that, but no matter what the changes have to take place from the top, ie government, companies that produce and use it. What's your idea in how to replace plastics and still make it as affordable? Like I said what's the point dealing with trash when you can go straight for the source of it. For every piece of trash you remove you can bet there's a lot more out there coming in. The human population across the world is booming so yes, it's a problem that will get worse and worse with time. Come up with a replacement for disposable plastics and get companies to use that instead.

[@DemPilafian]

@@huldu Stop littering!

[@huldu]

@@DemPilafian You too, see we're changing the world.

[@DemPilafian]

@@huldu Even though you're not changing the world, at least you are accumulating some virtue signaling points. Bravo!

[@Acidfunkish]

​@@DemPilafianAssuaging your own guilt, or what? This is not a normal reaction.

[@williamcarl4200]

Being on the water and doing a great deed for the Earth. I can't imagine a more noble life. Thank you all men/women of peace.

[@BenjaminD-rz9wi]

Amazing, I remember when they got started with their fundraising and Boyan was very young and there were many critics of this projects. I was a believer and I'm so happy they've gotten this far by now!

[@lonie3100]

I don’t know if there’s a fitting Nobel Prize but he should be nominated and awarded ❤ If there is no fitting Nobel prize, they should create one for him and all other people who dedicate their lives to saving Mother Earth 🌍 ❤️

[@carolbulmer8253]

This is shocking! Thank you for taking on this challenge🙏❤️

[@sergiom3097]

Boyan Slat You are my nominee for Sainthood. I'm not devout at all but I understand that people need these types of roles models in real flesh, we all do. I will contribute ❤️

[@fingiess]

having to blur out the brands on packaging found in the wild really shows you how hard these companies are trying to grip with the movement instead of gripping with their own pollution. shout out to coca cola for being one of the biggest plastic polluters out there 🤗

[@itsmikko1798]

We’ve gotta make ‘em go back to glass! I mean for real, glass is nicer to drink out of anyway…

[@fallinginthed33p]

Cans are fine too. Aluminum is much easier to recycle.

[@turkizno]

And then they have the gall to lie on their reports about how much they recycle. Good news to you, companies - you gonna be paying a heckton more for polluting than if you were to resolve the matter, because governments are catching on! Your loss, Ocean Cleanup's gain from your money!

[@Michael-ln7us]

​@@fallinginthed33pAnd at least if aluminium cans end up in the environment they degrade overtime far less detrimental to the environment than plastic

[@8__vv__8]

⁠@@Michael-ln7usaluminium cans are lined with plastic

[@ttno2024]

THANK YOU BOYAN SLAT for SAVING THE EARTH & Humanity!! ❤❤❤

[@01splitpea]

Removing plastic pollution from our waterways is extremely important, but more important still, is stopping plastics from being manufactured in the first place. It has got to stop, or we're going to be out a planet.

[@rawbacon]

Plastics are Awesome, you're in a Cult.

[@BaSiC47]

Nobody wants to admit that most of the plastic comes from 3rd world countries. I’ve been traveling a lot and in some countries it is normal to throw trash in water.

[@Debbie-henri]

That's going to be the only way to really make an impact on this type of pollution problem. I don't know if you have been watching the videos on China's terrible floods, but you can see the huge scale of new rubbish going downriver into the oceans. All Xi Xinping says about it is - it cleans the streets. He makes no effort to capture the rubbish and cares nothing about the impact this pollution must be having on his own country's and the rest of the world's fishing stocks.

[@ParthMaru11]

It is not possible currently.

[@8__vv__8]

Trash is a problem, but much of the plastic in the ocean comes from fishing nets. Instead of whining, do something. Banning non-biodegradable plastic fishing nets is easier than banning plastic bags and bottles

[@hjordistorfa]

Hope for our future generation & Planet was born when Boyan Slat was born..he's a inspiration to us all.. We will always Respect and love him.. Best of luck to you all.. and BigBig Bravo & Thank you all.. Greetings from Skandinavia 💖😊👍🇮🇸💞

[@callicordova4066]

I travelled from Spain to Morocco many years ago by ferry. When approaching the shore, there was a massive amount of plastic trash floating on the water. Sadly, this is the most enduring memory I have of that trip.

[@TomorowGames]

I remember back when i was in college reading about him as a 17 year old with the idea and wondered if we would see any results. To have an idea, then to go out and execute are two very different things, and one is even harder then the other. The work, the stress and perseverence to do it till you achieve your goal. Hats off to you! can't wait to see where we are at 2040.

[@lonie3100]

I bet people used to say to him that he should be realistic and would never be able to pull it off. As a teenager, a plan of such proportions, he must have had quite a few people chuckling when he told them what he was going to do. To hold on to goals, not have setbacks stop him and work towards his dreams is so amazing. Inspirational ❤️

[@atokea77777]

Infinie gratitude a Boyan SLAT et ses collaborateurs !

[@renee1741]

He has done something amazing!! I am so happy for what he has accomplished. He persisted and they made it work! Thank you so much Boyan!!!

[@joanneganon7157]

Thank you Boyan🎉. Thank you teams👍. JO JO IN VT 💞

[@MjMurphy777]

You guys give many of us great hope for cleaner oceans in the not to distant future. They are our lungs, they need protection. Thank you!❤

[@DemPilafian]

It would be much more effective to get people to stop littering and dispose of waste properly.

[@ritahodges254]

He is one of those people who's sporting to actually put himself out of a job. Those are the type of people who truly care about our world

[@naioane740]

Bless you and your team cleaning up the ocean🙏🕊️

[@peasinourthyme5722]

Wonderful work, thank you Ocean Cleanup! And great episode as always, Wild Hope crew!

[@dianafromcalifornia5127]

What a great young man❤

[@rebalyon6114]

Boyan, you are truly my hero! I love your work, your brilliant mind and your natural world connected soul. 🎉

[@catherinezanbaka5239]

Amazing work that gives hope for a cleaner planet.... Keep up the good work and Thank you for everything !

[@iuliiavasiuta2740]

Amazing organization, so happy to see their progress. They saved so many marine life ❤❤❤

[@jorgearenillas4]

That's amazing. I'm very grateful to those taking care of our home planet. It'd be awesome if governments around the world just banned the use of plastics. Give companies a grace period to find sustainable alternatives and, after that, no more plastic.

[@SorenAlba54]

Magnificent. I agree, with an idea like that, we should’ve done this years ago but then again, people are so careless that they believe that it’s all hopeless and has accepted for the way things are. That was until this man turned his vision into reality and it works. It comes to show that it takes just one person to have an epiphany and start a revolution. Kudos to you, Boyan Slat. May God bless you for your efforts. 🌊🦭🦈🐙🐬🐋

[@xamishia]

Thanks for your efforts, love the scripts and narration on your channel. Kudos.

[@lcz4033]

Amazing job! We need to CHANGE our habits and the way we see and act in our everyday life. Is not a matter of cleaning the ocean, is of changing and being more responsible, consequent, and take sides with nature, life. Stop the use of plastic, use other containers, reuse, support public policies of NO more single-use plastic, etc. Let's stop being indifferent and comfortable...

[@nebojsha78]

Bravo Boki divno je videti mlade a pametne ljude sa vizijom , svaka čast dečko !!!

[@MarkCosgrove-b3p]

Not,a bad way to spend your youth and mind. Good job, and thank you for being part of the solution .

[@stevencampbell365]

Go Strong Young Man and all people helping 💪🙏

[@h.bolden44]

Thank you for your great work. Love!!

[@zgchapel660]

Give thanks to Buyon and company for their humanitarian works along Sis. Alecia and the Jamaican humanitarian team JAMAICA THE LAND WE LOVE 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿

[@eves420]

A lot of thanks to that kind of peuple, with courage and force !! Keep on going 🙏🏻👍👊👏

[@kasondaleigh]

Uplifted . Thank you.

[@RPGTKingpin]

I plan to use this video in one of my classrooms as a lesson on environmental conservation and clean up. It is incredibly inspiring and uplifting to see things finally change for the better in a field that has seemed very bleak for a long time.

[@michaelburns9172]

That young man deserves to live a good and comfortable life.

[@Astr0b0y8]

Well done Mr Slat

[@martyminus90]

Truly heroes!

[@deannamadrigal7503]

Thank you for saving all the ocean animals that are harmed by the stupidity of people who pollute. I live on the Illinois River in Southern Oregon...all the trash I see that goes down the river to the ocean. So heartbreaking. Your a hero. 🥰

[@SimonMiles-m8l]

This really is an awesome project.. And we are all seeing it working.. changing lives, putting the Ocean back in its true position, & allowing the marine world to grow while losing threat of destruction.. Huge respect and sincere regards to Boyans persistence & vision... & determination.. And of course the same to the whole team..

[@MisterMagoo-nq4hm]

Thanks Boyan and Partners

[@clipmaker6716]

Thank you ❤

[@theck672]

Thank you for doing this clean up work and thank you for featuring this story. 🙏🙏🙏 A real, tangible way to clean up. Bless you and how do we support your clean up work?

[@thomas-fischer]

We need much more hopeful people with clear visions! Great job done, awesome and thanks! ❤💎👍🙃✅🐬🐳🦈🐋🐠🐟🐡

[@roger6278]

Thank you for your work

[@geraldineclarke5434]

THANK YOU !!!

[@TropicalOceanCleanup]

Amazing work who's biggest achievement is fund raising...without it no engineers to achieve this mans dream. Keep up the great work.

[@rolandbaxter1956]

Your Work IS amazing, try to participate all beach,River...Clean Up,convince the people, Gouvernement....the necessary of Clean rivers and Waters....and also per lae.look at Singapur, compate to Malaysia!!!!! Good luck for Team your are the Avantgarde Go in.

[@barrycranson7666]

thank you mate we need more people like you

[@slydog55]

Not many great man in the world, this is one of them.

[@MrMarkhall1]

Great work, keep it up.

[@derek-64]

It's not just cleaning up plastic waste but waste in general. Sure a lot of it is plastic but there's plenty of other trash as well that this helps to clean up.

[@frwansie]

Awesome work Boyan

[@everythingmatters6308]

Bless this caring man.

[@projecteli_]

These cleanups are inspiring 👌🏽

[@kpatel7995]

outstanding work done by all these wonderful people. Thanks.Hope the Whole World learns not to use all kind of Plastics.

[@Vicapr]

Great job everyone!❤❤❤❤❤

[@FUNvideo-no3uw]

Great video cleaning the environment and oceans

[@alxjetson8157]

Thank you Boyan and teams

[@luojingjie4236]

For so many reasons, both negative and positive, I just want to cry watching this.

[@paddy654]

Let nothing stop you😢😂

[@LetnouBarron]

I'm glad you made this video, it reminds me of my transformation from a nobody to good home, honest wife, $75k biweekly and a good daughter full of love ❤️

[@BritoCornelio]

Hello, how do you achieve such biweekly returns? As a single parent i haven't been able to get my own house due to financial struggles, but my faith in God remains strong.

[@Sophie-yt2bn]

I'm inspired. Please spill some sugar about the biweekly stuff you mentioned

[@LetnouBarron]

I raised 75k and Christina Ann Tucker is to be thanked. I got my self my dream car 🚗 just last weekend, My journey with her started after my best friend came back from New York and saw me suffering in dept then told me about her and how to change my life through her. Christina A. Tucker is the kind of person one needs in his or her life! I got a home, a good wife, and a beautiful daughter. Note: this is not a promotion but me trying to make a point that no matter what happens, always have faith and keep living!

[@NannaWoda]

This is a definition of God's unending provisions for his people. God remains faithful to his words.🙏 I receive this for my household

[@sarahcon793]

Wow 😱 I know her too Miss Christina Ann Tucker is a remarkable individual who has brought immense positivity and inspiration into my life.

[@cosmiccreator]

ABSOLUTE LEGENDS!! 🙏🌎💚

[@DE-vs2xy]

The plastic companies should be held liable.

[@ankittiwari55555]

We need hundreds of such systems in our oceans to clear all the garbage and even than a lot will remain which will continue to harm our Ocean life for centuries ! .... but somebody has to do it and we should all become a part of it ....

[@TheOneHundredPercent]

This issue belongs to each and every one of us. We all use plastics. We may not dump them into the oceans with our own hands, but we use them. A world wide tax should be set in place to help fund this operation. Would it not make sense, for us, our planet and our children's, children's future? The earths health should be our main, and most important mission over the coming decades. "We need and love what the earth provides. It cares for us, but we do little to care for it" Switched on.

[@huldu]

A tax for what to clean up plastics? There are sadly far more concerning things out there hence it has such a low priority, like global warming. It's a *luxury* to even be able to care and think about plastic trash, you realize this I hope? The majority of the world's population isn't even living in the west, we're talking about poor people living in miserable poverty with little to no education. How about we fix those problems first because it'll be a LOT easier dealing with everything else once people are united and on the same page. Not just the rich white people in the west and "everyone" else should follow suite. That's not how things work, in the real world.

[@TheOneHundredPercent]

@@huldu as much as I appreciate anyone's opinion, I don't appreciate having urs rammed down my throat . Comment section:set up for people to write their opinions on the RELEVANT video shown. Their own personal, subjective opinions. Oh, I realise (as u hope I do) I jst happen to think, (again, subjectively) the the issues of plastics in our oceans is a major problem that will affect our future generations. Sure, there are many different significant issues happening right now,but the video, and my comment is about OCEANIC PLASTICS. Sincerely hope u have a stoater of a day, in ur own "subjective" way, of course. Wow, ad infinitum. 😂

[@huldu]

@@TheOneHundredPercent Thank you for showing some respect.

[@TheOneHundredPercent]

@@huldu pleasure is all mines.

[@maribellemontero6119]

What a shame on us....

[@huldu]

It's not your fault and will never be. You're just a simple pawn in a much bigger game.

[@jenniferfraser1854]

Wonderful video! The governments have to get on board by banning unnecessary plastic containers and packaging and forcing BY LAW companies to stop making things, or putting things, or wrapping things in plastic. Too bad for the oil companies, too bad for corporations who specialize in making every thing from plastic, too bad for corporations who insist on planned obsolescence and/or short lifespan products. And people need to be taught ruthlessly to be responsible for where they thrown things out which they have used. But the first part of the equation has to be the corporations who produce goods. It is easier to control the actions of one hundred corporations than it is to control the actions of 100,000 people.

[@angelasalgado5069]

Good 👍 job..

[@clairfreitas8390]

Vc está fazendo a diferença no planeta, tem minha admiração e respeito, tenho divulgado seu maravilhoso projeto, é o que posso fazer para colaborar,👏👏👏🇧🇷🇧🇷

[@ngaourapahoe]

You are a true knight ! ❤

[@giorgiodelbasso8455]

Bravo !!!

[@lianefehrle9921]

What a great idea to have

[@faithdethier8207]

Wonderful!👍

[@thecrow6915]

Amazing video

[@itsmikko1798]

Make Coca Cola Glass again!

[@MB70855]

Why in the 21 century are we still polluting are Mother Earth this way, there should be a 100% ban on non-recyclable plastic . Keep up the great work ocean cleanup..

[@SuperFacecloth]

There is a reason why it all ended up in the oceans in the first place. Where does it all go once it is removed. Great work, but so much more needs to be done.

[@DJ-bh1ju]

Scary how labor and money intensive this is, and how much more they'll need to scale up. Hope they'll get the resources...

[@M4ii0r]

I've been watching some pretty depressing videos, this gave me a bit of hope for humanity

[@Pou1gie1]

Unfortunately, this is all just chasing your tail until there is a world-wide agreement to stop using plastic and develop better recycling systems which ALL coastal (and then inland) regions will have access to. Traveling around the world you begin to notice that it is not that common to have garbage collection, let alone recycling. And recycling isn't effective or efficient. They need to think about stopping the source, as well.

[@vadepierce4542]

I absolutely agree with this. They are going to ignore this issue until they realize “ok this will kill me to”. And then they will just get serious about this and solve this

[@Trixtah]

They do think about the source and they actively lobby national and regional governments about the issue. But one of their aims about doing these cleanups - other than the obvious, at least getting rid of a large percentage of it - is to make the issue *visible* and to give people *hope* that it can be fixed. A lot of this pollution happens because corporations in rich countries would rather get people buying water in plastic bottles than pay taxes where they do business in poor countries so that the govts there can provide clean water. Places are too poor to provide proper waste disposal services, so people chuck it in the nearest waterway or in a landfill that gets washed into a river when it rains. All these things need to be tackled, but if people see the river can be cleaned, maybe they will chuck in less rubbish, demand clean tap water, elect govts that can make changes, etc etc.

[@justinmas299]

Great job kid

[@Rahulkashyap-qv9kb]

hero ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@LupinLovebites]

I was hoping this would be something about teaching populations not to pollute in the first place. About showing lawmakers changing sanitation policies. About *actually* stopping it at its source: people on land.

[@biddiemutter3481]

Why are companies still allowed to make and sell single use plastic? Apart from medical use, there's always an alternative.

[@nycarrhythmiacarepllc7894]

There are alternatives, it's the investment and commitment that's lacking.

[@SKEC212]

The source of the problem is poor people don't care about trash. It's all the poor countries that are causing the problem. We need to educate the poor people everywhere.

[@sholpanbaimbetova9210]

Эти ребята от Бога

[@cjb461]

What is done with the plastic when it is collected

[@Khyranleander]

Always love hearing about this project. But of course, issues: cleanups still catch sealife despite the monitoring -- largely from shipping's past clearance of the vast algal mats for easier passage, so the resident species of those now only have the Patches as breeding grounds & refugia. Hard call how to handle that.

[@thisisatonofbs]

Great the amount of real garbage that is being removed, but I wonder how much of that plant matter helps the oceans with cycling resources from the land to the oceans and back again. All the leaves, branches and grasses that you see them pulling out of the rivers is what I'm referring to.

[@markkilvert9989]

Reduce consumption

[@rawbacon]

No Commie.

[@ho11owbone]

thats the only real solution. its kind of funny how consumerism has convinced people if they buy and consume the next new thing their life will get so much better, but after some fleeting "happiness" they continue to suffer, which then makes them consume more. but of course if you so much as suggest that we should consume less youre a "commie", it really shows how effective consumerism is at brainwashing people. but hey all these people need something to fill the void of their inadequate life, they actually think convenience and comfort will make them happy lol.

[@vsznry]

@@rawbacon shhh christo fascist.

[@rawbacon]

@@vsznry No such thing NotSee

[@Gertyutz]

How about countries where the water isn't safe to drink, and people must buy bottled water?

[@josueizquierdo8127]

Come To Peru 🇵🇪🦙 🌊🏖️ South America

[@Shweta5858]

Reduce having children, Reduce consumption, reduce your desire will help to reduce pollution and climate change

[@yureituesday]

Now to turn off the tap

[@DennisCambly]

After the rivers are cleaned up what happens to them? Is there a system in place to prevent the plastic from filling up the rivers again?

[@my32pints]

My wife was getting really overweight because she wasn't eating protein . I put her on a chicken diet for breakfast everyday and have started buying and preparing fish for her also . She hasn't lost any weight in the past year but she's showing signs of happiness at meal time and says she feels years younger because she sleeps a lot more .

[@Adrian-q7h5q]

When I was a child in the sixties. Walt Disney would show us ocean reefs. They looked like the ones in finding Dory. The movie. They actually looked like that. With dozens of variety of coral. I don't know if they still exist. But on those shows we saw fan coral. Big flat things like a hand held fan. Brain coral , they had markings that looked like a human brain. Now from what I'm seeing here. It's all gone.