The Ocean Cleanup Captures Record Amount of Plastic From the Ocean

The Ocean Cleanup is currently testing System 03, a massive plastic pollution collection device that captures tons of floating debris in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. #oceancleanup #ocean #environment #seaturtles #savetheocean #oceanwildlife #tech

[@peterellis4982]

All government around the world should pay a small amount to fund this 24/7

[@WyattStrange]

Hold on, let me translate this for everyone.
"All taxpayers should be forced to pay for the cleanup of the mess made by private billion dollar corporations and the corrupt governments who subsidize them."

[@DanWhite1025]

Engineers at work. Awesome. Hope the world brings them much joy.

[@user-sv2uo3li1n]

GOD Bless you and yours.

[@jansimons2771]

❤ bravo and very good work my best friends from the sea..❤

[@ryanquist1990]

These are the people actually making a real difference in the world instead of wearing orange shirts and stopping traffic

[@marlan5470]

YES!

[@JZF629]

You all are literal saints. You’re doing God’s work. All of humanity owes you a great debt

[@brucewilson2763]

Very impressive! How do you avoid having boats going into the collector?

[@DefyingOldAge]

I can see that it's also capturing fish... they are just being dumped on the ships deck along with the plastic

[@ashdjones]

Walle/Eva: Thats a lot of trash wtf?!

[@charaznable1131]

I know i will get hate for this but this will not solve the problem coz hugh amount of plastics are produced every day ..... The true solution is to regulate which products have plastics in them

[@tennilletobin7823]

Regulation will not clean the existing plastic from the oceans… this is making a damn good start.

[@barracuda861]

Yes we need to make plastics from bio-degradeable oils. Like Hemp or other Plant based oils.

[@charaznable1131]

@@barracuda861 from what i have heard corporations don't like hemp coz they can't make much profit from it compared to petro chemicals coz they would have to pay farmers a good price for hemp ..... So only regulations will do something but don't get hopes up with the government coz the lawmakers are lobbied by the petrochemicals industries

[@barracuda861]

@@charaznable1131 Yes so very true. The petro ind. is the one that kept us from having Hemp as an oil. And the infrastructure has matured enough for a cheaper full scale crop. But we did get the Hemp act a step in the right direction.

[@marlan5470]

Tell me how you get to legislate that, when it's governments legislating forced use of plastic. Case in point: covid 19

[@gregorious111]

Looks good. Good.

[@416pp]

The real soldiers doing gods work not the religious one the real one.

[@user-sv2uo3li1n]

Heroes

[@jamalsiddiqui5844]

Cool, can someone explain how they're keeping fishes away from capture

[@Odia_bhaina]

It is not very deep. Only 1-2 feet not exactly sure

[@Odia_bhaina]

And very slow moving

[@F_T2D_Drew]

So, like a skimmer. Plastics float. Makes sense.