Why Are We Deploying Interceptor 007 in Los Angeles County? | The Ocean Cleanup
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2022
- Intercepting plastic in rivers is the single most efficient way to reduce inflow into the oceans - and now with Interceptor 007, we're tackling plastic in Los Angeles County, USA.
Follow the journey from the start: from visiting the site and collaborating with local partners to constructing and shipping Interceptor 007 to its new home in Ballona Creek. Subscribe to our channel to stay updated: bit.ly/371k8sN
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To rid the oceans of plastic, we need to not only clean up the legacy plastic that is already out there, but also stop new plastic from entering the ocean: we need to close the tap.
Rivers are the main source of ocean plastic pollution. They are the arteries that carry waste from land to the ocean. Working together with government leaders and private corporations around the world, our goal is prevent plastic from ever reaching the ocean via the world's rivers. How? By deploying Interceptors.
The Interceptor is The Ocean Cleanup’s answer for river plastic waste. It is the first scalable solution to prevent plastic from entering the world’s oceans from rivers.
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This is GREAT! In order to help your huge effort WE need to curb the volume of trash that washes off the streets into our waterways. I take the trash out of a local creek that has been flagged as a major polluter to the lower Russian River here in Northern California. Most of it is surface trash mixed with some encampment trash here and there. Thank you, The Ocean Cleanup for the HUGE work you and your team are doing around the globe!!
You're a good guy for doing that. Just now I just picked up a full trash bag by the side of the road and threw it in my car.
@@robertwoodpa6463 Heck! You are a good guy for picking a bag of roadside trash!! If we all pick up a little trash here and there it would make a sizable difference. The trash puzzle is big and there are many pieces to it, but clean streets and neighborhoods is a big piece of the puzzle and most people can participate in that part of the cleanup.
Where I live (UK) there are volunteer groups who organise regular beach litter pick-ups on the Severn Estuary - lots of families with children take part. Big river, tiny area cleaned, but every effort is worthwhile!
Except citizens are not really the problem. It’s large companies that have been allowed by our governments to use disposable plastics at such huge scales. ❤glad to see Coca Cola is helping fund the project but they are also one of the biggest contributors to the problem and if they really wanted to help they could do much more.
@@lindaj5492 Yes! Volunteer groups are good for cleanup events and create a great sense of community. We have a couple monthly cleanup events in my area that make a big difference in our local waterways. When Covid started all our events came to a standstill for awhile, that is when I started my RUclips channel about trash removal.
What a statement this was. It is cheaper to ship the Interceptor 007 (on a boat) from Malaysia to LA than to assemble it in LA.
WOW!
Right?
I know this one's just getting started, but to LA officials and Ocean Cleanup - please consider additional interceptors for the LA, San Gabriel and Santa Ana rivers! They all dump out a lot of trash onto our local beaches and would benefit from this type of system.
I’m from LA and have noticed the creek has been cleaner for a while now. Had no clue you guys were attached to it - thank you for everything you do
That's so cool you can see the difference!!
COCA COLA IS REALLY SHAMELESS
Thanks to the whole team! What you are doing is amazing. I´m doing regular river cleanups myself an having an intercepter at the end of a river would be necessary in a lot of rivers. If you look closer you can find trash even in remote and seemingly untouched parts where you wouldn´t expact anything.
I am sure that there are some dirtier rivers around the world, but I agree that it will definitely raise awareness to have it in LA.
It probably is in the top 1000 since that is the goal of the interceptor project for now. Tackling the top 1000 pollited rivers
@@sdtok527, yes I am sure it is, but I just don't think it is in the top 10.
Given how long it takes to create an interceptor I tend to think it would have been better used on a more polluted river.
As they said in the video, it is more for awareness than anything else.
@@sdtok527 This river isn't on The Ocean Cleanups own map of the 1,000 most polluted. They're definitely putting one here simply to get millions of eyes on the project. Not a bad thing at all, and it will still reduce plastic! Gotta get attention if you want funding, so this will help with that!
@@mastahfrederique1147Good catch! I agree with the statement that plastic wise, other rivers probably would be better to tackle.
Also agree with the awareness point, more funding also accelerates their goal. I also think bureaucracy is probably a big part of the long launch window of an interceptor. The 007 was probably relatively easy to realise paperwork wise . Does not look to be in a busy boat route. And in an English speaking country where they have somewhat of a precense already. So that might have factored in as well.
los angeles is practically the entertainment capital of the western world. it is definitely a good idea to raise awareness by putting one in such a place
I really wish more people would pay attention to this project, you can go as far as the funds get you
You can help spreading this message. Make flyers about this, and give them to people at your local grocery store/shopping mall/movie theater.
@@Ujuani68 A lot of flyers end up on the ground and just create more pollution
Cannot imagine the logistics involved to build, ship, and deploy something like this to scale. Great accomplishments all around.
Staggering and inspiring!
Pretty easy when Coca-Cola is your partner.
@@Bayplaces they are?
The modern day GREAT PYRAMIDS!
If I was the Mayor (senator/congressman ect.)of Los Angeles I would be feel embarrassed by the fact that a foreign institution that deals with so much trash worldwide has to come to California (one of the most environmentally progressive states in the US) to collect trash. Bravo 👏 LA and kudos to Ocean Cleanup!!!!
There is a difference between signaling and doing
I don’t see why LA should be embarrassed - they were quick to adopt a forward thinking solution to a problem that affects cities all over the world.
@@speedlett you don't have to 🙈. California is one of the worlds largest economies on a standalone basis. The fact that they can't spend resources to keep their trash from going in the ocean after being a progressive economy is as what I already stated.
Los angles
Environmentally progressive
you’re funny
Those sorry Ass Politicians soon as they find out you are there cleaning up their river.They will all show up claiming victory.I can see them now.caliorfornia..Plosi Waters Newsome
Swish. Great to see this project making its impact all over the world.
perfect choice!! USA is an developing country in many ways. Help is needed urgently: they are not aware what their are doing.
Correct, the US is so far behind Europe, Japan and even Australia and Canada in some ways.
Thanks Boyan, you're amazing. I've noticed you years ago when your idea was a dream, a goal. You've come so far, I'm extremely impressed, grateful, amazed, and am so proud of you. I'm so glad you've got the Interceptor launched. I'm going out to find him today! Can't wait to see him in action!!! Thanks SO much!!! 🥰🥰🥰
I went by where 007 was parked and saw the team, so exciting! AND I had my Ocean Cleanup t-shirt on! 🥰 I'm working on getting the schedule deployment and ongoing schedule from LA County Public Works. Wish me luck!
lets gooo!!! As a So Cal Resident and Civil Engineer with a focus on Water I am beyond stoked you guys are coming out!
Should be a great PR location, like said in the video, not the most polluted river out there. But PR and global awareness is important too.
I enjoy to learn and watching this video or your work and now I have my breakfast & lunch as well 😊
wow it's about time coca cola changed its plastic production fast. It's a beautiful gesture, but we have to be realistic. I will never give up supporting you but this is a very mixed feeling. but glad that there are already 7 interceptors working and that jenny is also getting better and better.
Absolutely BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!!
You folks are amazing!!
My mother would tell me something you can’t change the world but you can certainly clean up where you’re standing now get to work
I’ve carried that message with me throughout my life
Reminds me of the story about the starfishes washed up on the beach…. “It matters to this one.”
I lived in a suburb of Los Angeles 50 years ago and they needed this then. Glad some of the government officials finally noticed there was a problem ! 😢
Awesome effort and incredible inspiration.
There's a lot of trouble with drought in California. Definitely a good idea to prevent what water there is being ruined with trash.
Bali needs this
Every piece of trash caught not going into the ocean is a win! Great visibility will help this company and idea grow so they can deploy hundreds of Interceptors around the world.
Thank you ❤️❤️❤️
Amazing!
Glad they are helping another developing country
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Interceptor 007
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Pity the video didn’t use the right music!
Interceptor 007 - License to clean
How awesome!!
The best "company" in the world! =)
Should put the interceptor design open source for as many people to build and install them as they want.
thank you for having the pride for surface contentment, styled. eventually people will evolved their finesse standards of Living grace confidence, and weventually we won't have any signs of negligence correctance calming.
thank you for being a such goal leaders of cleaner result tegritys, people can raise family's of.
Yes!
Perfect.
Can you please help get a movement going to cleanup or nations highways? There isn't a single cubic yard in Oregon, Idaho, or Arizona that isn't completed littered with trash. Someone ought to be engaging the trucking industry as well as you can tell that a good portion of this is caused by them.
Man I remember the 002 and were lacking funds now it's come a long way 👍👍
Ty
In order to help you get ad revenue, I dont skip the ads and watch the whole video
In partnership with Coca Cola, a large contributor to the problem.
Love it for sure ! I've never been the litter bug type having grown up in programs like Indian Guides, Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts we were taught to care about the environment. At one time I was even a member of the Sierra Club but some of their efforts rubbed me the wrong way(tried to close the Anza Borrego desert), but I still care very much about the environment and to this day I always leave a camp site better than I found it and when I hike I pick up trash on the trails. I think a lot of people are the same as me but, it doesn't take a lot of people to mess up an area.
thank you all so much if you ever make it to Oahu Hawaii I'd jump at the chance to work with you guys and help in any way I can
what a name for a boat ...
Fantastic work ocean cleanup 👍😊
Yaaas 🥳
Can the whole city go through the interceptor? Thank you for working to save the planet and lives.
Thank you for all that you are doing!
Keep up the good work. My. Name. Is Keith
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"When the rain comes..." you mean "When we are all praying that the rains put out the fires so they don't burn down our homes..."
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Geweldig werk (as usual), maar kan me niet helemaal aan de indruk ontrekken dat de keuze voor de locatie van Interceptor ook iets te doen zal hebben met de sponsor en fondsenverwing ???). Maar ga vooral zo door ! Next step: Pakistan ????
Glad to be here so early! Can't wait to see what interceptor 007 gets done!
Keep up the good work 👏 🙌
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How do you guys collect the plastic that doesnt float with the intercepter?
The interceptor probably won't collect what doesn't float. A machine/net to collect sunken plastic might harm the river bed so I'd think divers would be the best option. NZ has an organisation called Sea Cleaners - there might be something like that in the States?
Welcome to our beautiful State❤ Thank you for your efforts!
Can’t wait to see it work, only 50 miles north of my home😎
Love seeing you in U S A waters! Helping to clean our oceans.
Any chance to clean oil spills?
Great britain really missed out on getting the 007 the james bond on taking out the trash
Nice to see someone(s) doing something meaningful about the trash that flows into the Pacific.
He said "meters". :O
All is not lost in the US... :D
I would love to assist or be apart of the clean up crew, if you're ever in the PNW.
Honest question, why is deployment so slow? Who’s this pace you won’t get to 2,000 rivers in 100 years. I love what you do and I guess it’s all really complicated but this operation needs to scale up. You need bezos or gates or someone like that to fund you.
How big is your operation?
Probably funding. People are lazy and careless in the US. Corporations don't want to fund cleanup.
Yes, but they’re based in the Netherlands. I’m sure people there want to fund too, along with lots of countries in Europe
They are starting with the rivers contributing the most, something like 100 rivers cause 80 per cent.
@@evelynsaungikar3553 Its 1000 rivers that cause 80% of the problem, its in their website.
But handling 7 rivers in 3 years is not going to get you there anytime soon.
To have a meaningful impact this has to be scaled to at least 20 rivers per year.
hilarious hearing people not from california describe how LA has a reputation of being clean and green lol. california is beautiful, LA is a shithole
other than that, amazing work again everyone! interesting to see how cocacola is in partnership with this interceptor. i'd love to hear more about that.
It would be good for Coca-Cola to have this publicised - as long as their “green credentials” can take the close scrutiny right through their sourcing, manufacturing, packaging and transportation systems. Seems a lot of companies advertising themselves as “green” are anything but that.
You should call Arnold, he's sensitive to environmental issues. He could bring even more media coverage. This means also more donations ;)
Which LA politician is going to try to take full credit for this I wonder?
lmao coca-cola is the sponsor, green washing be like
Great work!😁👐🏻 How long does it take on average to build an interceptor?
3:06 - I think he was trying to sing the James Bond 007 theme? Maybe copyright issue meant this video used something else! 😊
It's sad to see that such a developed country is still one of the biggest places where trash comes into the ocean. Thx again for everything Ocean clean up!
It’s even more distressing that single use plastic pollution is associated with developing/third world nations. There is no sustainable method for managing single use plastic. It needs to be eradicated as a means of packaging.
WOW. ITS NEEDED LAND IS THE SAME
thank you for choosing malaysia to built the interceptor. ❤
It’s hard to believe it cost less to ship that from Malaysia to Los Angeles then it did to assemble it there
I'm from Malaysia and I think it is due to the fact that our currency is weaker than USD. Our currency known as Ringgit has been in the downward trend since many years ago and improvement or recovery from the ongoing predicament seems to be bleak at least in the near future but who knows what's going to happen many years to come. The manpower cost to assemble the whole thing on site in Malaysia is therefore significantly lower in comparison to assemble it in LA or USA.
I wonder if there are any spots on the East coast that would benefit from an Interceptor. The more the merrier for raising awareness and keeping as much waste out of our oceans as possible!
Baltimore Maryland has had Mr Trash Wheel for a long time. The community has buy-in and it cleans up the Inner Harbor.
@@nativedawta They actually have four in the Inner Harbor and Patapsco River around Baltimore, and are planning on one in San Francisco, and one in Panama.
@@animes2k That's awesome! Thanks for the info!
I recall going to marina Del Rey after a rain storm and it was just wall to wall with plastic .
It shattered my illusions of LA
To be honest i would have liked for 007 to be deployed in the UK. Couldn't you just have skipped a number.
I understand the connection, but perhaps we don't need it?
Why did California not use the usa home grown mr trash wheel like in Baltimore
every city i've ever been to has garbage all around, at least in certain areas of the city. the problem is that we consume SO much as a society, esp in cities, and so little of our waste is compostable. Even if 99% of people properly dispose of 99% of their waste, that still leaves enough waste to make places gross. e.g. LA has 4 million people with US avg of 6 pounds of trash per day. Even if it's just 40k people dumping 0.06 pounds per day, that's still 2.4 TONS of trash *every* *single* *day*.
Communities shouldn't be shamed bc of their trash problems. Yes, we need to fix them, but we must realize the problems are more systemic: Our materials are killing the earth. We simply cannot expect that everything will always be disposed of properly. It doesn't happen and expecting it to is insane. As such, we need to push harder into sustainable materials, esp for one-use disposable objects like utensils and bags. Thankfully, a lot of r&d is happening, and some states are making move to ban certain materials, but there's a LOT further to go. however, that's going to be most of the solution in the long term. That said, love the interceptor for helping in the short term with our inherent, systemic packaging failure.
I hope to see these across the US and the world. And hope to see a day when we no longer need them.
in glad america is embarrassing change. so yes save us all
Must be a poor waste management system in the LA since the waters are polluted with trash. It's good that there's an interceptor there, but it is absolutely essential to stop the trash to ever enter the rivers.
007 should have been put on the Thames in london….. missed opportunity to James Bond
Not that it doesn't get dirty. Let's just be honest your only putting an interceptor there so rich people can enjoy the beach flawlessly. Rather than somewhere that it can actually help the Earth
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usa como no hace algo mejor y necesita una organizacion sin fines de lucro
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it's a great idea for one in LA but your gonna have people either messing with it or destroying it. gonna have people spray painting it and taking copper wires off of it
i'm really concerned that coca cola is a partner AND the world's bigger polluter 3 years in a row. solving pollution also means reducing trash. you're an amazing company and deserve better than coca cola to help you cleaning what they are responsible for
If you live in LA, you know it ain’t Coca Cola throwing trash out the window on the 405 or just leaving trash on the beach.
At least Coca-cola is aware that it needs to improve its green credentials. It’s a start: hope other big multinationals follow their example - and that they’re all prepared to have their entire production system scrutinised!
@Josh Pence yeah buts its the coca cola bottles that they are throwing out which means its plastic as a whole. The worlds plastic pollution problems shouldnt have to be all on the individual consumer. These huge companies who contribute to the majority of the waste need to do their part as well. Im not saying by any means that people just throwing trash everywhere willy nilly are ok either but its a whole systematic change that needs to happen where we dont use so much plastic that we think that its ok to just throw it out on the side of the road
@@JortsoftheJungle I am pretty sure (but I have no proof) that PepsiCo and CocaCola are pretty busy with trying to invent something that works just as good as plastic. Because to be real; Plastic is not the problem. Plastic is awesome. But plastic pollution is the worst! I don't think that CocaCola and Pepsi cola want to be responsible for the problem. But untill a good alternative is available, plastic will be used for the storage of food and drinks.
My hope is that PepsiCo and CocaCola would have a big public battle about who gets to be the biggest sponsor of these cleanup situations. Deal with the pollution problem while working on a solution to prevent new pollution.
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It would greatly help if people were not such polluters, it happens all over the world, some places more than others, the question is why do people litter so much?
Sounds about right…. Need people and resources from another country to clean up our sh*t..
Thank you for your selflessness and dedication to keeping the Earth clean.
Allegedly, the most advanced country in the world and can’t pick up their trash…..
I though US was a developed country, and LA to be a rich state. Even some developing countries have better waste management
LA isn't a state at all...
Have fast food outlets in USA not yet been REQUIRED to stop using one-time plastics, and replace those items with biodegradable materials? For instance, bamboo cutlery; cups and food containers made from recycled paper & cardboard (without plastic lining).
As a matter of principle I'm against government meddling in business, but this certainly is a tempting place to do it. The greasy paper bags and napkins thrown from car windows around here are still nasty, but at least they will decompose within a year or so if nobody cleans them up. Or faster if hit by a lawnmower. The soil is full of shreds of mowed plastic that will never go away.
Thats the most LA shit to change your reliable assembly process to avoid paying the ridiculous prices lmao
I am a cyclist, been riding for 42 years, everywhere I ride I see trash in the ditches on the sides of the roads and walking in town i see trash in the gutters, cigarette butts plastic straws, cups. Everything you see on the streets in your town end up in some waterway. In the coastal town I was born in in California, they just added a 25 cent charge if you use a throw away cup. Where ever I am at I pick up trash I see, just think if everyone did that. People are in the mindset that oh someone will pick that up, or clean that beach or? We cant always wait for a interceptor.
25c charge for them to SUPPLY you with a throw-away cup?!? Back-to-front logic: the company should be charged or taxed with incentives of lower charges as they increase recycled & reusable materials, and reduce / eliminate single-use products.
In partnership with coca cola? The company that puts beverages in "plastic bottles"? I hope they do not stop just sponsoring 1 interceptor. With their profits they can fund hundreds of these.
I would never classify LA as "clean"
Don't judge the U.S. by what you see in the Socialist Peoples' Republics on the Left Coast. Come to the heartlands run by honest, Conservative people........ They're clean and safe.
Lmao that's hilarious. Red states are disgusting.
Los Angeles is not a clean city and I'm glad this is bringing awareness of that fact.
Great initiative! Why does Coca Cola have to be on it as sponsor and isn’t more modest. Just knowing you made this possible should be enough for such a mega company.