Clearing The Great Pacific Garbage Patch | The Ocean Cleanup
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- Опубликовано: 31 май 2024
- Our world’s oceans are being flooded with trash. According to research by the World Economic Forum, 90% of the 80,000,000KG of trash in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch comes from only 10 rivers.
Boyan Slatt, a young entrepreneur from the Netherlands started “The Ocean Cleanup '', an ambitious non-profit with the goal of eradicating our rivers and oceans of non-degradable plastic. They believe that the waste still has value and that it should be put to use by being recycled and reintroduced into the production of new goods.
This Dutch Startup plans on tackling the 80% of plastics reaching the ocean, coming from only 1,000 rivers. To hit their target, some high-tech machinery was needed, so the Ocean Cleanup invented the river interceptor. This unit is incredibly effective at clearing waste from rivers, however, they wanted to set their sights higher, clearing the largest accumulation zone of plastic on the planet - the great pacific garbage patch.
Over the past year, The Ocean Cleanup has been testing their ocean garbage extraction method 002, named JENNY. It works by driving 2 Maersk ships in tandem, towing a 300m floating barrier between. The barrier is held up by massive floats on top, ensuring no garbage can escape from above. The net portion measures 3 meters deep, with an opening on the bottom allowing trapped fish to evade capture. The ships move at 1.5 knots and come together once a week to empty the retention zone and organize the materials onboard one of the Maersk vessels. Once organized and packaged, the materials can be sent to their corresponding recycling facilities and made into new, sustainable goods!
In mid-October, 2021, Boyan Slatt’s 12-week test campaign was deemed successful, achieving proof of technology. From nine test extractions, 28,659 kilograms (63,182 pounds) of plastic were removed from the ocean - with 9000 retrieved from a single haul.
Moving forward, The ocean cleanup plans on running their series 002 JENNY, until they launch the system’s sequel, the 003. At a length of 2.5km, system 003 is expected to be 3x larger than its predecessor. The next phase involves scaling the project, with the objective of getting 10 Jennys operational as soon as possible.
We wish The Ocean Cleanup success moving forward, taking on this insurmountable task!
#theoceancleanup #teamseas #greatpacificgarbagepatch 
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Crazy to think how much trash there must be in the ENTIRE ocean. Glad companies and individuals are tackling these issues.
It sure is! Thanks for the comment :)
Agree with you
good initiative.
2:06 Bald eagle keeping the seagulls in check
Take a bulk carrier ship and trash cleanup boat and go to Pacific garbage patch. this may take less year to clean up and may cost less.
I like how people are worried about gas emmisions from two or ten boats and not worried about millions of trash being put in the water lmao
Haha exactly!
You said 10 rivers, it's 1000 rivers putting 90% of trash in the ocean
This plastic is from the fishing industries
I commercial fished for 2 years, 1983 to 85. In those years the plastic garbage patch was the size of Texas and now it is twice the size. It took 2 days to get through this shit. Now it is twice the size. Been there done it.
Prioritize the ocean cleanup and dont get political over exhaust from the ships! Get the 10 bits of infrastructure and rotate the ships and crews continuously. Then other centres of ocean waste can be attacked, reduced with accumulate results. Thank you for the inspiration the actual effort and the results. In 5 or 7 years a great substantive improvement would be achieved.
Yes!
As we all know, plastic waste is difficult to degrade under natural conditions, and the pollution and damage to the ecological environment are extremely serious. Therefore, I think it is very important to reduce the use of plastic products and recycle plastic waste in life. The government should also adopt relevant policies at night, and protecting the environment is the goal of global efforts.
i wish more people would get involved.
We couldn't agree more
Pres. Biden might order the USN to cleanup OUR OCEAN DUMPS
.............. if taxpayers demand it
Its hard to find products that dont cause trash. And everything is so easy to consume now, packaged just right in plastics.
lol I think the problem of plastics in the ocean is a lot more worrisome than the emissions from two ships.. especially when there's ships all over the world all year long
Ocean Cleanup is helping with the garbage patch though right?
add a plastic pelitizer machine and plastic pyrolisis system on both ships you could have 2 floating factories on the ocean , you can produce plastic pelits to ship to other vessels on the ocean and at the same time use some to produce diesel for the ships engines and even ship oil back to shore . to clean the salt from the plastic you can have desalination system based on condensation of ocean water by boiling and store the left over salt or throw back into the ocean so basicly have a multifunctioning floating factories on the ocean, doesn't have to be big just modify what you already have and find a market for your products at a very cheap price to fuel the further cleaning up processes.
*low-pollutant diesel!
@@colieprincess5512 what is converted into oil on sea can be used for the diesel engines and other machines to further process plastics that are taken out of the ocean , what Im trying to say or point out is a way to maximise the time and potential each time a ship reaches those plastic patches in the ocean , if you can convert part of the ocean plastic back to oil to use for fuel and other forms of lubricant or any other material to help other processies it will be able to convert ships into floating factories that massivley increase the outake of plastic out of the water, make more reusable items, increase profit and generate new jobs and possibility's making a new possitive circle until plastic is completly taken out of the ocean's.
Need to be getting it out everyday.
Fucking Justin Bieber gets millions of views...
This one hardly gets 200 likes.
Humanity is so sick.
Haha! Great comment, Miguel. We are on the page with that one
well that's exactly how we got into the place we are now. walk around your town and look at Society! the people that have anything are so far up their ass and only concerned about their pleasures
As long as you keep cleaning up plastic there is no incentive to change. If I can’t see it it isn’t there.
Ban plastic bags, that'll at least help control pollution. We don't need to harm our environment more than we already do.
How will they do this without fossil fuels?
Renewable energy for fuel, and large batteries.
Because the ships go slow could solar/hydro power be used?!?
As of yet, we don't believe solar has reached the capacity to power the ships. It is a question of surface area (solar panel coverage).
I have seen recently some kite based energy generation trialed on ships. Perhaps add that into the mix?
@@fastforwardtech They could run on batteries charged by solar.
Why are we not finding new products to take the place of plastics. ? Stop the manufacture's who package every thing in plastic.
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Why? Stopped!
Just what we need screw mats let’s clean up ARE world first!
Disgusting all that plastic pollution and all the dumped fishing nets from the mega trawlers of Russia/China.
Please ban cool drink companys
WHO IS HERE BEACAUSE OF THE ENGLISH HOMEWORK ?
Me!
the reader seems sleepy..
good luck to O C... not easy
collecting is difficult
sorting is difficult
marketing is difficult
disposing leftover is difficult
The solution, stop all plastic production...
8 simple concept basic logic if life is not free why the hell would death be any cheaper it's not. So the question one may wonder is the spiritual cost to one's own soul and spirit for having lived and died to the lowest standards of quality for so many years now global pollution has diminished the quality of life to the point where today's people are living, dying and yielding the worst spiritual kickback that has ever been manifested since the beginning of life only getting worse. The polar opposite extreme to that is today's people should be living and dying to the highest standards of quality which would make each and every moment physically, mentally, financially and spiritually beneficial. S.R.F.