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.
Imagine if the same amount of money was spent stopping the trash at the sources, where trash is being mishandled, not the mouths of rivers. The benefit and effect of every dollar would be 1000x more. This cleanup project makes sense if and only if we already have those kinds of stoppers being implemented. It's the same logic as cleaning up a flooded basement before stopping the leak. Inefficient use of $ and economic output. Unless such huge $ is being put to these problems that we can tackle them all at once.
@FBCxUNKNOWN Sorry to burst your bubble, but the Ocean Cleanup's detailed analysis of the waste over the years has found that the USA is one of the top 4 biggest contributors of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, due to having one of the top 4 biggest fishing industries. Every country, and every person is responsible for plastic being created. The blame game doesn't solve problems.
He would be the one person I trust to get it done. His whole attitude of "someone else can do it" really shows his heart is in it, and it's not just for the money. According so some website I just looked at, they spend less than 2% on administration and fundraising, the rest is put into the actual program.
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.
@@sekurumudonzvo Not sure about that. You should visit ASIA. Dumping into the seas is first nature to all ASIANS. You should see the mangrove swamps of the Philippines, and Malaysia. Indonesia also.
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.
You're not comprehending the enormity of that task. That one gyre is so large it would take hundreds of years to clean. Not counting all the crap that gets thrown back in daily. And then there are trash gyres in every ocean. Then there's all the trash and fish nets under the surface. We are irresponsible pigs and waited until it's way too late. Good luck with all that. You're going to need a lot more boats. Thousands more. Thanks a lot.
Go check out their channel and website. The Ocean Cleanup are doing more than you think. Also, there is the Global Ghost Gear Initiative, and individual Ghost Gear recovery and recycling going on in other countries. Also, many are working at restoring coral reefs, and re-wilding oceans, rivers, forests, reintroducing native key stone species that restore the biodiverse ecology, such as beavers in rivers, and weasles in prairies, etc, It is not too late. Mossy Earth, and Planet Wild have re-wilding RUclips channels. Fun fact: there is no longer a hole in the ozone layer over Australia. Hydrofluorocarbons were banned, and it restored. There is good news, too. It isn't as emotionally gripping for viewership as news that is frightening and/or makes us feel angry, so it takes a bit more effort to find.
@@bill29-g3bI think you're too stupidly pessimistic to understand how quickly the environment can recover given the chance. Look at what happened to wildlife around the world during lockdown.
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.
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
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.
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.
thanks for putting the attachment to donate, I know I will when ever I can. I am on govt. help but still it's something and if we all just sent something easy peasey
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.
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.
Kind of stupid. Most of the ocean trash (85% or more) is close to shore. The remainder is predominately from fishing vessels. Let’s focus where we need it.
💩 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
Removing bigger plastic from the ocean reduces microplastics. Other people are working on removing microplastics already in the ocean,and rivers, but a whole lot more needs to be done. I am not sure how oysters fair with microplastics, but they are excellent filters, and are being used in water clean up processes in the U.S.A, and Scotland, and probably other places, such as Japan. Oysters are an excellent key stone species, too, for restoring the native eclology.
Some microplastics come from big pieces breaking down - those would be greatly reduced by the project. Other microplastics are already tiny when they get in the water, those won't be affected. Tire dust is a major source.
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.
Yes, your point is completely valid. However, stopping the issue at the source entails, amongst other things, creating sanitation infrastructure in thousands of villages, towns and cities in many many countries around the world. No one person or organization can accomplish that alone and if we wait for everyone to get their act together before starting to clean up, we will be in a much worse place. If your basement is flooding you might need to bail out the water so you don't drown before the leak is fixed.
Nice he can get the plastic on the surface. The plastic will still be there. The plastic stretches from the top to the bottom. How is he going to clean that?
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.
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
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.
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.
@@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
halloween decorations. xmas, valentine's, beach toys, cloth/clothing. Every person on earth is responsible for eliminating plastics BY STOPPING BUYING CRAP.
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.
But what about the microplastics. Which is the bulk of the problem. A net is not going to clear those out? Just picking up the visual floating garbage is nothing but window dressing. False solutions are worse than no solution.
Less than $1B per year is spare change on a global scale.
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.
@NealR2000 most countries should not. The major contributors should. USA by far the worst offender
@@NealR2000Still not an expensive cleanup
@@rnlamsee1I don’t know about that, have you seen the polluted messes in some of these Latin American and South Asian countries?
Imagine if the same amount of money was spent stopping the trash at the sources, where trash is being mishandled, not the mouths of rivers. The benefit and effect of every dollar would be 1000x more. This cleanup project makes sense if and only if we already have those kinds of stoppers being implemented. It's the same logic as cleaning up a flooded basement before stopping the leak. Inefficient use of $ and economic output. Unless such huge $ is being put to these problems that we can tackle them all at once.
Please consider donating to The Ocean Cleanup. This guy who started the organization has really put his heart and soul into this effort.
now we should bill the plastics industry for the cleanup
perhaps then, they would finally create reasonable, compostable plastics
Exactly. A tax on virgin plastic could pay for this while encouraging recycling (not burning) of existing plastic
My thoughts exactly!
Aluminum contributes too
@@pluckybellhop66 how do you figure? aluminum occurs naturally when magnesium picks up an extra proton...
This man deserves a freakin Nobel Prize.
I donated to them every month. Glad they are making an impact
Hate to break it to you. They aren’t. And the problem isn’t anything to do with Western countries.
@@FBCxUNKNOWNwhy do you comment, when it is only negative?
@FBCxUNKNOWN Sorry to burst your bubble, but the Ocean Cleanup's detailed analysis of the waste over the years has found that the USA is one of the top 4 biggest contributors of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, due to having one of the top 4 biggest fishing industries. Every country, and every person is responsible for plastic being created. The blame game doesn't solve problems.
@@FBCxUNKNOWNyou would need to specify how there projects are not helping not just saying they are not
They are scammers Watch Simon Clark on this topic please 🙏🏾
Just give him the money - we need people and systems like this. I hope governments get behind this.
He would be the one person I trust to get it done. His whole attitude of "someone else can do it" really shows his heart is in it, and it's not just for the money. According so some website I just looked at, they spend less than 2% on administration and fundraising, the rest is put into the actual program.
It is also up to us to reduce our plastic waste.
They are scammers Watch Simon Clark on this topic please 🙏🏾🥺
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.
Well said.
The United States is the biggest contributor by FAR to that patch... facts
I think he talks to lots of other countries a lot as well
Agreed ..also Plastic producing Corporations
@@sekurumudonzvo
Not sure about that.
You should visit ASIA.
Dumping into the seas is first nature to all ASIANS.
You should see the mangrove swamps of the Philippines, and Malaysia.
Indonesia also.
Just imagine… if all the world’s wealthiest men / women donated 1 billion each to ocean clean up?
Indeed for the richest 1Billion is almost pocket money if only
Imagine if people like YOU actually took some responsibility and DONATED some of YOUR money?
@@Slick1020 hard to do when we're paid pennies by those same people
Imagine being this dumb @@Slick1020
@@Slick1020Back under your bridge!
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.
Single use plastics are about to be banned in South Australia. Japanese government is trying, but the people love them.
You're not comprehending the enormity of that task. That one gyre is so large it would take hundreds of years to clean. Not counting all the crap that gets thrown back in daily. And then there are trash gyres in every ocean. Then there's all the trash and fish nets under the surface. We are irresponsible pigs and waited until it's way too late. Good luck with all that. You're going to need a lot more boats. Thousands more. Thanks a lot.
Go check out their channel and website. The Ocean Cleanup are doing more than you think. Also, there is the Global Ghost Gear Initiative, and individual Ghost Gear recovery and recycling going on in other countries. Also, many are working at restoring coral reefs, and re-wilding oceans, rivers, forests, reintroducing native key stone species that restore the biodiverse ecology, such as beavers in rivers, and weasles in prairies, etc, It is not too late. Mossy Earth, and Planet Wild have re-wilding RUclips channels.
Fun fact: there is no longer a hole in the ozone layer over Australia. Hydrofluorocarbons were banned, and it restored.
There is good news, too. It isn't as emotionally gripping for viewership as news that is frightening and/or makes us feel angry, so it takes a bit more effort to find.
@@daniellamcgee4251 Delusion is key to believing that.
@@bill29-g3bI think you're too stupidly pessimistic to understand how quickly the environment can recover given the chance. Look at what happened to wildlife around the world during lockdown.
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.
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
Such a Good Program to have
kudos to all Supporters and Investors
make the plastic companies pay for it
while we are at it make gas companies pay a carbon emission fee cause right now they are getting away with polluting the air ocean we all breathe
@@jcd327WE use/need plastic and gas. Those companies will just raise prices for US if fees are ordered
Wow that's like 1/10 of a Twitter, to clean up the whole ocean? Wow
90% of the oceans by 2040. So almost.
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.
Yaaay I'm so happy this is happening. ❤
Cleaning up is nice but we should solve the root problem first in order to prevent further pollution , which happens by the day
The Ocean Cleanup , and others, are working on the roots of the problem, too.
They are working on both so nothing to worry about
Their river interceptors do an even better job. These guys are awesome!
money is fake, this problem is real. GET IT DONE!
Oh? So go do it without money for the resources required...
7.5B over 10 years? That's NOT that much money for a worldwide problem.
Love how the guy pronounces “powerful winches” at 2:35 hahaha
@shadowm3ld LMAO! I didn't notice the first time but now I'm picturing a much of muscular Renaissance tavern wenches pulling up the nets.
Haha they must be very powerful indeed
Do it NOW! I don't care how much it costs! We're saving ourselves in the end!
Great initiative will donate some day
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.
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.
It’s an already proven concept
That’s basically like 3 SF apartments
Let’s do it !!!!
Wow, that’s cheaper than what i expected. 😮
Truly amazing work, this is where money should be going!
Things like this will eventually save this world
What an amazing legacy some/ a wealthy person could have! 🌟
This project is just amazing, we need to make it happen and we need more solutions like this to clean our waters 🙏❤
thanks for putting the attachment to donate, I know I will when ever I can. I am on govt. help but still it's something and if we all just sent something easy peasey
This will be a never ending project ,
We will never get everyone to stop throwing their trash wherever it's easy.
How much plastic is still going into the ocean?
somewhere around 10 million tonnes per year. That's a whole large garbage truck every minute of every day, without end.
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.
I'm curious how quickly the patch begins to re-form. Is there a rate at which we're playing whack-a-mole?
That's not that much money, totally do-able between corporations, and government.
this man dedicates his life to clean up the ocean since he was a boy. lfg.
Good people.
US military has $500+ billion per year budget…
Because we have one of the largest militaries in the world einstein. Maybe join or be quiet.
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.
@@Slick1020 I don’t think that that was his point… did you watch the video?
@@RobertForseee You're really slow huh.
Yeah, 10 hours and $4B military spend didn’t hold water for me. That would be $3.5T per year budget.
Twitter costed 44b...
Yep
Please give him the Novel Prize. PERIOD
Typo to correct :)
Can someone tell me where the garbage patch came from? Who dumped all that garbage?
dumped in rivers and from there it goes into the oceans because rivers end up in oceans and gets concentrated because of ocean currents
Countries that don't have the money to process or dump the garbage into landfills
@@theuserofdoom that’s rotten!
Kind of stupid. Most of the ocean trash (85% or more) is close to shore. The remainder is predominately from fishing vessels. Let’s focus where we need it.
can I see a photo of this big garbage patch?
How dare they assume we want it clean. That's partially my ocean and I like it how it is.
Imagine Tesla shareholders gave the money to cleaning the environment instead of musk.
???
💩 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
Wish they'd bring the sunglasses back. I lost my pair. 😔
and what about micro-plastics?
Removing bigger plastic from the ocean reduces microplastics. Other people are working on removing microplastics already in the ocean,and rivers, but a whole lot more needs to be done. I am not sure how oysters fair with microplastics, but they are excellent filters, and are being used in water clean up processes in the U.S.A, and Scotland, and probably other places, such as Japan. Oysters are an excellent key stone species, too, for restoring the native eclology.
Some microplastics come from big pieces breaking down - those would be greatly reduced by the project. Other microplastics are already tiny when they get in the water, those won't be affected. Tire dust is a major source.
Remember when we had 'Cabbage Patch' kids instead of a 'Garbage Patch'.
We also had Garbage Pail Kids. But we digress...This is an amazing project with incredible potential.
And the Cabbage Patch Kids have become part of the plastic that is choking the planet, and we need to do something about.
I think this should be paid by the biggest plastic polluting companies… cough* CocaCola
CocaCola actually is one of donors
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.
Bring me the Audio chef I made that scratch oil this morning
Come on RUclipsrs... Let's do this!!!
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.
Yes, your point is completely valid. However, stopping the issue at the source entails, amongst other things, creating sanitation infrastructure in thousands of villages, towns and cities in many many countries around the world. No one person or organization can accomplish that alone and if we wait for everyone to get their act together before starting to clean up, we will be in a much worse place. If your basement is flooding you might need to bail out the water so you don't drown before the leak is fixed.
Adobe of these billionaires need to start pitching in significantly!
Each continent should have atleast 10 pair of cleanup vessels of their own to do this, minimum.
1000 football players donating 1mln gives 1bil. Messi, you can be first ! ❤
Nice he can get the plastic on the surface. The plastic will still be there. The plastic stretches from the top to the bottom. How is he going to clean that?
Yeah idk why they never mention the fact that not all plastic is laying on the surface
The should charge the 7.5B to all the companies that created the problem. Like CocaCola, Nestle, all the fashion industry etc…
Create a plastic tax on virgin plastics to fund it.
give 1 bilion of the yearly 380 billion nato budget to this project.. this will benefit all of humanity :)
Thank you, Dream! "That's what the mask is!"
I've been following him and the company since day 1. This isn't very sustainable without Billionaires investing in it.
FUND IT
Please Add UN Climate Change Destination Roadmap .
They still exist?
The American Halloween thing was odd but I’m all in.
Just USA Pacific Ocean or from Alaska to chile?
Could my taxes go to this instead of the Pentagon?
Picking up all that s..t as no price!
This is great but it's killing the organism at the surface of the ocean
A net isn't killing microorganisms...
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
does this account for microplastics? Cause I thought the GGP was mostly microplastics?
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.
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
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
Why have we not just banned plastic already?
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.
@@jonah11111 so we're doomed. 🤔
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.
@@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
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
But I like microplastics in my seafood. Guess I'll have to eat my credit card now.
We'll just pollute it again 🫤
Humanity, here’s your new leader.
halloween decorations. xmas, valentine's, beach toys, cloth/clothing. Every person on earth is responsible for eliminating plastics BY STOPPING BUYING CRAP.
This is amazing wonderful awesome 👏👏👏👏💖
Wish I could be there to help
GOD has many blessings for you guys
Stay well ✌️
You can help by reducing your use of single use plastics, and not eating fishery seafood. 🦭
Not 4 billion , 7.5 billion
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.
Pessimistic and optimistic estimates depending on how well their planned improvements end up working.
Las marcas mas famosas deberían ayudar con la limpiesa ..coca cola .leys .pepsi.etc todas estas marcas que ayudaron a contaminar el planeta de
Elon musk should donate
Wait so he built a buoyant slat? And his name is …really?
Gonzalez Brian Lopez Jose Jackson Gary
Put a tax on the plastic manufacturers to pay for this.
Give them the money and stop giving money to fight other countries wars.
I talked to all the trees and plants and they are very pro CO2
"Beautiful town"
Clearly this man has never been to Wheatland lol
why does he look like dream
But what about the microplastics. Which is the bulk of the problem. A net is not going to clear those out? Just picking up the visual floating garbage is nothing but window dressing. False solutions are worse than no solution.
It is not the “bulk of the problem” 😂
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.
Can my taxes go to this instead of war? Please?
Shouldn't Coca-Cola pay for Plastic recycling?
Yes because Coca-Cola produces everything made of plastic...
if only marine life would help expedite the clean up...
The US sent it to Ukrain. They can more than afford it
Educate people to stop polluting at home. Try it! they will cry as if they were being oppressed, tortured and scream for their freedom
“Recycled” 🤣🙄🤣🙄🤣
WE NEED AI TO CLEAN THE OCEANS
🥰 👏👏👏👏