The Ocean Cleanup Reveals Plan to Clear the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

[@kstrohmeier]

Less than $1B per year is spare change on a global scale.

[@NealR2000]

Classic idealism. This theory is just that. Theory. You're working on the assumption that every country will be part of the plan. Most countries won't.

[@rnlamsee1]

​@NealR2000 most countries should not. The major contributors should. USA by far the worst offender

[@DrMarkyMark]

Fake numbers. How can you clean up the ocean when new garbage is being fed at incredible rates. We need to work with developing countries to stop ongoing dumping.

[@MyChannel-ol1zz]

@@NealR2000Still not an expensive cleanup

[@smoggless]

@@rnlamsee1I don’t know about that, have you seen the polluted messes in some of these Latin American and South Asian countries?

[@eadanlin]

I donated to them every month. Glad they are making an impact

[@kenafford]

It is not only the United States that should depend on the clean-up drive, but all governments and private companies within the Pacific Rim must take action now.

[@rashaadlawson4537]

Well said.

[@sekurumudonzvo]

The United States is the biggest contributor by FAR to that patch... facts

[@codyeasonBGR]

I think he talks to lots of other countries a lot as well

[@JohnWindberg]

now we should bill the plastics industry for the cleanup

[@JohnWindberg]

perhaps then, they would finally create reasonable, compostable plastics

[@rushja]

Exactly. A tax on virgin plastic could pay for this while encouraging recycling (not burning) of existing plastic

[@treefarm3288]

My thoughts exactly!

[@pluckybellhop66]

Aluminum contributes too

[@m.e.p.r]

Just give him the money - we need people and systems like this. I hope governments get behind this.

[@mariansmith7694]

Just imagine… if all the world’s wealthiest men / women donated 1 billion each to ocean clean up?

[@Elfig2011]

Indeed for the richest 1Billion is almost pocket money if only

[@Slick1020]

Imagine if people like YOU actually took some responsibility and DONATED some of YOUR money?

[@YTClassifiedProductions]

@@Slick1020 hard to do when we're paid pennies by those same people

[@angrypickle6346]

Imagine being this dumb ​@@Slick1020

[@bigj651]

@@Slick1020Back under your bridge!

[@TheGiggleMasterP]

Wow that's like 1/10 of a Twitter, to clean up the whole ocean? Wow

[@honewhetstone1732]

90% of the oceans by 2040. So almost.

[@TheAuraEngineer]

I think he’ll get the money or at least extremely close to it, companies already have an interest in things like this because it looks good for them to donate too and is a good tax cut, while also allowing them to make contributions to helping with climate change

[@marsh6676]

US military has $500+ billion per year budget…

[@Slick1020]

Because we have one of the largest militaries in the world einstein. Maybe join or be quiet.

[@ClayMann]

the richest country in the world can't even agree to give their own people basic health care so I wouldn't put much stock in having a lot of money making any difference to how ethical they would be with it.

[@BobbyForsee]

@@Slick1020 I don’t think that that was his point… did you watch the video?

[@Slick1020]

@@BobbyForsee You're really slow huh.

[@benprovan]

Yeah, 10 hours and $4B military spend didn’t hold water for me. That would be $3.5T per year budget.

[@epsilon1670]

make the plastic companies pay for it

[@dpt17]

7.5B over 10 years? That's NOT that much money for a worldwide problem.

[@dpharr100]

How much plastic is still going into the ocean?

[@ClayMann]

somewhere around 10 million tonnes per year. That's a whole large garbage truck every minute of every day, without end.

[@RikHeijmen]

That's why the Ocean Cleanup does not just focus on cleaning up. They have deployed lots of "Interceptors" in the world's most polluting rivers and the results are very promising. Look into it. Then post.

[@royalaurastudios3339]

I have been talking about this for years and finally people trying to get things done. One world and when it is gone so are we.

[@vindiesel1469]

Remember when we had 'Cabbage Patch' kids instead of a 'Garbage Patch'.

[@scottadams7038]

We also had Garbage Pail Kids. But we digress...This is an amazing project with incredible potential.

[@bweber9468]

There needs to be a virgin plastic tax in order to offset the cost of plastic recycling. Also, Single use plastics need to be scrapped and redone as biodegradable plastics only.

[@treefarm3288]

Single use plastics are about to be banned in South Australia. Japanese government is trying, but the people love them.

[@rgen28]

Imagine Tesla shareholders gave the money to cleaning the environment instead of musk.

[@steve_o734]

???

[@steve_o734]

💩 comment , considering that musk pushed for electric cars when no one did it , and he's rocket company is reusing rockets most of the time , he's also pushing for houses to have electric panels, why using him as an example !! So st.upid ! Even if he earns so much money at least he tries to innovate and be pro active

[@tekspec]

money is fake, this problem is real. GET IT DONE!

[@oceantransistor]

Why have we not just banned plastic already?

[@jonah11111]

Used in everything, the amount of alternatives we'd get into would be problematic. If we actually recycled some of it that wouldn't be too bad. But most countries see an end recycle rate of about 2%, including the US.

[@oceantransistor]

@@jonah11111 so we're doomed. 🤔

[@AthleticHobo-br4qh]

For one thing food prices on food would go up. Plastic is critical to prolong shelf life of various foods. Eg a box of organic oats, inside the cardboard box is a plastic bag that is the real key so that it doesn't go moldy and stale.

[@jonah11111]

​@@oceantransistor Only if things don't change. Something needs to. Moving towards more alternatives, multinational efforts to clean existing garbage, and find a way to get the recycling facilities' recycling % numbers up. Most gets trashed anyways

[@donniethesportsguy893]

Really? It's in everything. The key is not dumping it and not liter. I wouldn't be shocked if local recycling are the ones dumping into the ocean

[@shadowm3ld]

Love how the guy pronounces “powerful winches” at 2:35 hahaha

[@XuanThaoYenTram]

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[@maxfastest]

This will be a never ending project , We will never get everyone to stop throwing their trash wherever it's easy.

[@TheOnlyName]

Truly amazing work, this is where money should be going!

[@LarryStone-q6r]

I'm curious how quickly the patch begins to re-form. Is there a rate at which we're playing whack-a-mole?

[@marianf25]

Really nice initiative that gives me hope. 4B is nothing at this scale. Moving from 10 years to 5 it's also a huge improvement. In 10 years a large part of that plastic will already be on the ocean floor at best or in our food.

[@JoeyBlogs007]

3:12 Great concept, but I'm not sure about the sea creatres could easily swim out of the way part, given it's 2.5 km accross. That said, it does have safety exits it seems and overall perhaps the benefits outweigh the costs to sea life.

[@pamelas9]

I encourage you to watch their channel. These are not crazy deep nets as plastic is floating on the surface. The system is quite shallow and to avoid it sea life swims right under. If something ends up in the net they open a hatch and the caught creature can swim right out. Also, they show the dumping of the plastic "catch" right on the deck. I'm not seeing any sea life, do you? They have worked hard to make a real world, thoughtful, scalable systems to stop plastic from entering the oceans and to deal with what is there.

[@azadtayar347]

It’s an already proven concept

[@amdop]

Twitter costed 44b...

[@mathijs9365]

Yep

[@laboose6598]

and what about micro-plastics?

[@PigRipperLAW]

Getting Tesla and Theranose vibes here. Guessing all the figures in time and cost are totally wrong and it probably has fatal flaws. Time will tell.

[@minhlede]

this man dedicates his life to clean up the ocean since he was a boy. lfg.

[@flaneurpainter]

That’s basically like 3 SF apartments

[@konradasd2472]

1000 football players donating 1mln gives 1bil. Messi, you can be first ! ❤

[@azadtayar347]

I think this should be paid by the biggest plastic polluting companies… cough* CocaCola

[@HygienistDentist]

Come on KZbinrs... Let's do this!!!

[@tcu1099]

Wish they'd bring the sunglasses back. I lost my pair. 😔

[@TheSkystrider]

Imagine if the same amount of money was spent stopping the trash at sources. Not even mouths of rivers but actually in the places that trash is mishandled. The benefit and effect would be 1000x more. This project makes sense if and only if we already have those kinds of stoppers being implemented. It's the same logic as cleaning up the flooded basement before stopping the leak. Completely irrational at least in terms of most effective use of $ or economic output.

[@Rob-p2c]

Can someone tell me where the garbage patch came from? Who dumped all that garbage?

[@MangoIsLove55]

dumped in rivers and from there it goes into the oceans because rivers end up in oceans and gets concentrated because of ocean currents

[@heyo638]

Each continent should have atleast 10 pair of cleanup vessels of their own to do this, minimum.

[@Desaved]

Do it NOW! I don't care how much it costs! We're saving ourselves in the end!

[@jaredsalazarofficial]

Wow, that’s cheaper than what i expected. 😮

[@Words7722]

Please give him the Novel Prize. PERIOD

[@Clove_Parma]

Typo to correct :)

[@CrimsonAlchemist]

I've been following him and the company since day 1. This isn't very sustainable without Billionaires investing in it.

[@thunderdemonlover]

Please Add UN Climate Change Destination Roadmap .

[@Fellolkek]

US military could find this money in their couch cushions from 1 year of operations.

[@gatodario]

So, instead of tackling the root cause, polluting industries that produce single use plastics and non-biodegradable materials the solution is to create a new market with venture capital to clean up at the end of the chain. That's rich 🤡

[@azadtayar347]

Doesn’t change the fact that it’s there for all of eternity and needs to be cleaned up

[@DaytonJoey]

The American Halloween thing was odd but I’m all in.

[@Benvenjtos]

Just USA Pacific Ocean or from Alaska to chile?

[@toology55]

We'll just pollute it again 🫤

[@GetOutsideYourself]

But I like microplastics in my seafood. Guess I'll have to eat my credit card now.

[@brmc6919]

does this account for microplastics? Cause I thought the GGP was mostly microplastics?

[@ClayMann]

no that's a whole other many order of magnitude bigger problem. As there isn't anywhere left on Earth that doesn't have microplastics. We need some kind of radically new bacterial kind of solution there that can eat and transform them which I believe is coming along really nicely. But deploying that globally is a whole other problem where every country will have to agree to fund it but it sure won't be 1% of plastic companies profits.

[@RikHeijmen]

What about dedicating your own life to solve that problem instead of posting "What about that OTHER problem that is not addressed by this?" Tss

[@philipstanescu7852]

They still exist?

[@urbanstrencan]

This project is just amazing, we need to make it happen and we need more solutions like this to clean our waters 🙏❤

[@esteeeeeeeev]

I have an idea that no one will like implement the trash in movies show it like in water related movies or nature movies all types of movies to wake us up this is truely a worldwide problem

[@oOCentralSunOo]

Create a plastic tax on virgin plastics to fund it.

[@mattperrin1208]

7.5 billion isnt staggering for a 10 yr roi. for an ocean that gives us TRILLIONS of dollars a year. dummie logic with how they introduced that.

[@pollyquarles6940]

Let’s do it !!!!

[@imacuser101]

need to commercialize this....like use the plastic as fuel to make energy and in turn revenue. then you dont have to worry about donations drying up

[@prophetessoftroy]

"Beautiful town" Clearly this man has never been to Wheatland lol

[@boboyu35]

Not 4 billion , 7.5 billion

[@RikHeijmen]

7.5 billion with the result they have had until now and 10 years. 4 billion if they continue to improve and 5 years. Its called "progress". Check their documentary, look into it. Then post your informed comment.

[@luklopskywalk]

FUND IT

[@wylerXL]

if only marine life would help expedite the clean up...

[@humanresources2138]

7.5 billion is not much compared to what this would accomplish. The title makes it sound like it was going to cost trillions. Just more clickbait BS.

[@eugenehazardjr4022]

This is amazing wonderful awesome 👏👏👏👏💖 Wish I could be there to help GOD has many blessings for you guys Stay well ✌️

[@honewhetstone1732]

Humanity, here’s your new leader.

[@CIAO_MEINS]

They might use that thing to pick up floating corpses in the near future 🤢

[@landshass2849]

Don't throw garbage in the ocean in the first place, I'm sending to boats working on fossil fuel!!!!! Let alone the recycling process is just a waste of money.

[@Nugemart]

Come on Elon, open your wallet buddy…

[@jamesbrinkwater2104]

So where is Elon? I thought he cares about humanity…44 Billion for Twitter but no money for that?

[@rashaadlawson4537]

Gee. I wonder why. 🤔

[@BlancOwly]

They need to make a fully automated robot to filter the trash, thats really a boring job for human.

[@rustyshackle917]

Feel good stories about bandaid "solutions" that do nothing to address the root of the problem.

[@RikHeijmen]

Posting negative "comments" without any fact checking. The Ocean Cleanup actually has several 'interceptors' deployed in the world's most polluting rivers, mostly in Asia. Results are very promising. Check the full video they jay released. The world is better of with Boyan, for sure. And the world really doesn't need baseless bs from people like you.

[@mofosoto]

I like these guys but can’t help to think, how nice of them to come up with a plan to collect $4 Billion for themselves.. I mean, ocean cleanup..

[@RikHeijmen]

Did you not read about the work Boyan has done since he was 15 years old? And just decided to post this baseless and utterly useless comment here?

[@locholoco]

This guy is being around with the same pitch... asking for $$ and delivering nothing.. now it is in the billions!! hasn't anybody chk this?

[@content_ai_]

WE NEED AI TO CLEAN THE OCEANS

[@dpharr100]

I talked to all the trees and plants and they are very pro CO2

[@Wiruebehs]

7 billion to clean that up wtf? That seems a bit high.

[@ruthwik081]

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) is estimated to be around 1.6 million square kilometers in size, which is about twice the size of Texas or three times the size of France.

[@toddpreston1008]

This idea is about is as smart as the new green deal What are you going to do with trash

[@urarogaming2425]

Spoiler: it doesn't work

[@jonah11111]

???

[@RikHeijmen]

Spoiler: you're a troll.