How we mapped the Great Pacific Garbage Patch | Research | Cleaning Oceans
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- Опубликовано: 21 мар 2018
- 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic weighing 80,000 metric tons are currently afloat in an area known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch - and it is rapidly getting worse. Subscribe to our channel: bit.ly/371k8sN
These are the main conclusions of a three year mapping effort conducted by The Ocean Cleanup Research team.
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We believe that, to develop the most optimal cleanup technologies, it is essential that we truly understand the problem. Unfortunately, very little is known about the properties and dynamics of ocean plastic pollution - this is why we invest in scientific research. By understanding the sources, transport, and fate of plastic in the ocean, we create the foundation onto which we develop our cleanup solutions.
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Trash accumulates in five ocean garbage patches, the largest one being the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, located between Hawaii and California. If left to circulate, the plastic will impact our ecosystems, health, and economies. Solving it requires a combination of closing the source, and cleaning up what has already accumulated in the ocean.
The ocean is big. Cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch using conventional methods - vessels and nets - would take thousands of years and tens of billions of dollars to complete. Our passive systems are estimated to remove 50% of the Great Pacific Garbage patch in just five years, and at a fraction of the cost.
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Boyan and his team are an inspiration to young people and a ray of hope for humanity. Keep it up.
Truly amazing that a person as young as he was when the project began, and the positive impact he and his team are having on the planet's problems is commendable to say the very least.
Bravo!
Must have a great personal support network
LOL China throws more than that in the ocean every day.
@@tlaf-yh2px probably one block of one town. I doubt China is doing much recycling currently - use it up and throw it out, including the planet!
I did a presentation in english class today about plastics in our oceans and you were a part of it. Your project is really awesome. Keep up the great work :)
What's your point here, I'm confused?
xOzzA1 His “problem” is that there is no “plastic garbage island 3x the size of Texas”, it simply does not exist.
These guys are con artists trying to swindle gullible fools out of money to “save the world” from a problem that doesn’t exist.
Rifle Shooter Channel You believe that?
xOzzA1 Considering it’s the truth, yes.
Rifle Shooter Channel well then
This whole operation is the best example of 'faith in humanity restored' I know.
Tom Franse The whole Operation is a scam to take money from gullible fools.
Rifle Shooter Channel it's good to be sceptical, but at least bring some sources to the table if you make a statement like that.
Tom Franse Absence of evidence is evidence of absence.
They have showed *ZERO* proof to back up any of their claims of this “trash island” that’s supposedly 3 times the size of Texas.
They’re up in airplanes, they’ve got the time and money to screw around and make all these videos. But they can’t get even *one single picture* of the existence of “trash island”.
daffy more they are looking to invade the ocean bed for algae farming to put water in algae based ball packages that are biodegradable. it is the algae that vegans use to substitute foods. that will kill the ocean for good.
Rifle Shooter Channel have you been living under a rock? it is all over the net, start searching
Boyan, you need to receive the highest award for your great work. Not sure there are awards for helping save the world, but you deserve it big time.
Thank you guys for the awesome work and saving the world.
Our company will always support you and financing this great organization!
More than thank you for your efforts. You're tackling the ocean. We need to now tackle the land.
go zero waste please
LOOONG WAY TO GO to tackle the ocean.
It would take more than 100 years.
And to tackle the land it's even more since you would need to terminate those idiot people that are throwing paper or garbage on the street.
If I'd ruled the world, those people would be laser terminated instantly.
leslie Petoski , WWF
Air as well
Yup, we need to mine the landfills and recover useful materials
Thank you Boyan for this masterpiece of thinking and executing your actually thinking... That process takes a lot of courage, thank you so much, I will try to support you where I can.
It us so encouraging to see peoples working together in caring for our planet.
A brilliant young man... there's hope for the world afterall
I'm old enough to remember when plastic packaging was "the newfangled thing" and most packaging was still paper, glass, and metal. All of which are easily recyclable or biodegradable. All we have to do is just go back to paper, glass, and metal packaging. Recycle/reuse the glass and metal, let the paper degrade. Simple and easy. And not that expensive, since we could afford to buy products packaged that way in the past.
Mr Boyan Slat and your team, thank you so so much for saving the beautiful ocean!!!
I love this kind of pioneering work! Thank you so much for this inventive genius. Wish all the best for the whole OceanCleanup-Team. Keep up the fantastic work! :o)
Thank you, Boyan and The Ocean Cleanup for all you do!
You are a wonderful human being who works for this world and you do it very well, I hope you continue and do not falter in your hard work for this planet. I wish you the best luck of this world, God bless you and help you Boyan Slat and your team.
Wow what a huge amount of effort for good statistics, that's great!
I love how professional you are doing all of this, I hope I can participate in the project in the future!
Actually I think most of it is WASTED time, money and resources.
Some good thinking and observing on the coasts of SE Asia and the HABITS of throwing all garbage in the sea would have yielded the same information MUCH cheaper, MUCH faster.
ODDBALL SOK Of course that would be one way to do it but The OceanCleanup did their research very scientifically and their mission is not primarily to stop new plastic to enter the ocean but removing the plastic of the big swirls.
When he said separating plastic from plankton a cold shiver ran down my spine. I live on a river in eastern Kentucky and every time the river rises from heavy rains all manner of things can be seen floating down it. Everything from plastic bottles to coolers to even refrigerators. It sickens me to no end because I know where this stuff ends up. More needs to be done....much more.
Well then get out there and start picking it up.
More people like you. God bless and more power! ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you for doing this and being an inspiration and motivation to us all.
What a MAN...and his team...seriously, these guys are heroes.
Great work team ,"Ocean Cleanup". I look forward to seeing your booms in action :)
This is incredible, keep up the good work!
I can say MY sweet boyfriend has contributed to your amazing idea!! I just spoke to a friend who spoke about Dubai they too are in need of your project!! To continued research to riding our oceans of OUR neglect to support our living souls in ocean and sea!!
Faith in Humanity restored!! Thank you for doing this 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼👏🏼
meh. 99% of ocean plastic comes from seven rivers in Asia. Fix those rivers and you can find something else to wring your hands over. The same with atmospheric carbon. First, fix China.
i can't bear with how much i admire the project and Boyan
You admire con artists?
@@rifleshooterchannel208
How does it feel to be the only drop of negative in the sea of positive?
Reub Pru Like being a one eyed man in a room full of blind ones.
_Awesome_
@@rifleshooterchannel208
For sure it is hard to see the world from inside your one eyed room. But, if you take a leap of faith and step out, you will see the truth.
@@rifleshooterchannel208 stfu
This was an amazing piece of work!
Thank you for helping to heal Mother Earth.
The humanity is with you.Lets do it together with all our strength to protect our mother earth.A great salute to all the members of the Ocean Cleanup and to Boyan Slat.👍🙏
So incredibly glad you are doing this! Keep up this great work. Thank you!
Congratulations,the Ocean club and you,,very important!!!is great...
thx for you guys' hardwork and efforts! We should spread the message and join forces to save the ocean and it is actually saving ourselves!
Thank to all of you for saving our world !
❤️🌷🇳🇱❤️🌷🇳🇱❤️🌷🇳🇱❤️🌷🇳🇱❤️🌷🇳🇱
There are good people in this world and you and your team are for sure a bunch of them! You give me and the rest of us so much hope! Thank you for the incredible hard work you all do. It’s truly one of the most beautiful things to see.
Amazing job, we are all very grateful, thank you!
You young people are doing a great job. Should you recruit for this effort, many will heed the call.
Sunalem Sepulveda hey there I have an idea that can compete / piggy back his research and in the name of cleaner oceans I'm sure he would like to help let's make an attempt to start our own thing. What do you say
Don't wait for a recruit call...start small in your own cicle of life..pick up street waste and recycle.
Thank you so mutch for the work you all do.
Profoundly grateful to this group of people. 🙏
Keep up the amazing work! Thank you.
AMAZING effort! Thank you!
This guy will go down in history and people all over the world will remember him.
Keep up the great work!
Kudos to your team and yourself for such commitment to coordinate, collect, and analyze the analysis of this. A real problem that should have been a more focused thing years ago.
I wish the best of luck to you, I know you will change the world and make the ocean clean again
You are amazing, love you guys, keep up the effort!
Thanks for your hard work and vision.
Thank you soooo much for all of your hard work!! 💚🌎
I THANK YOU FOR YOUR
SMART ACTIONS
ON OCEAN PLASTIC
Keep it up .god is with you👍🙏🙏🙏🙏
How can someone dislike this?
THANKS FOR SO MUCH EFFORT
KEEP UP!
What amazing work you guys are doing!! Thank you for doing this amazing work!!! I hope that the next generation of Humans continues your work!
We need more people like you in this world!.. Great video, you will have success in your project.!
thank you!!!!
A team of Superheros !!!
Thanks to you to follow the importance of the data and look at the data for solving the problem.
What you're doing is awesome. Thank you.
brilliant. this is the way forward.
Best of Luck you guys!
I really appreciate many aspects of this video and the thoughtfulness of the researchers. While the numbers are staggering and clean up should be undertaken no context for the numbers is provided.
Thanks for everything!
Fascinating! Great work!!
This is utterly amazing. It's absolutely beautiful.
B oyan, thank you for taking this on. Engineering for the planet!
Incredible , THANK YOU
I saw a vid lately about people in French Polynesia combing the beaches regularly to almost no avail as the garbage returns with every tide, it has gotten down to the point where plastic particles are now integrated in the landscape, amalgamating with rocks, pebbles, sand…
Thank you from my heart Boyan Slat 💖 You and youre hole crew members are a world heroes.. Great educational information.. I'm horrified by the measure of how big this thing really is 😨 Wishing you all the best of the best.. One thing I promise you is that I will do my verry best to share this on.. everywhere 🌍.. and recommend others to do so as well 👍💕👍✌😊💕💖 Bravo 💕👏💕👏💕👏💕
I am more than grateful and humbled by the efforts of Boyan and the countless individuals making this happen... I read about his collection/ cleanup design a few years ago and was blown away by 1 thing... It was not his age, or even the simplicity of the design... I was blown away by the fact that this problem has been studied since the 70's and it took a 17 year old kid saying "why not?" to finally get a bunch of adult engineers, biologists, and environmentalists off their ass to create an absolutely simple and logical hypothesis, prototype and solution to this. In addition, his determination surpassed all the naysayers, red tape, and funding hurdles to make his simple solution to a global problem a reality.
Great work! Thanks
This guy and all his work team are GREAT. I´m Biologist, i was reading a lot of this proyect and it's just amazing..
I dedicate myself to clean the oceans too, mainly in Mexico, cause i'm from Mexico... but this is everyone's job, it's everyone's responsability... we can clean the ocean, however, if we keep throwing garbage, consuming plastic in an excessive way, etc ... it will not change anything, the result will remain the same, it is a praiseworthy job, but as I said before, conscience is needed in everywhere.
You are doing a great job!
This man and his organisation must have a nobel
These wonderful people deserve our gratitude in a massive way. Vision and science will help eliminate the mostly plastic pollution in the oceans. Now a new way to manufacture “stuff” is needed. We need to incentivize using ecologically friendly materials and educate educate educate people around the globe to buy less stuff and dispose of it responsibly.
I do not know English, so I apologize for the mistakes.
Your videos, and most importantly your work inspire me a lot and in the near future I want to become as cool as you. Thank you for what you and your team are doing.
BRAVO - amazingly huge undertaking - not unlike landing on the moon. Keep up the good work.
Thank you Sir for doing a great job
This is amazing!
Nice work! Keep it up👍
Excellent!
Amazing job!!!
Good work guys!
God bless Boyan and his team! Let's fight back the pollution in the oceans! And let's all be the source of a solution and not the pollution!
This man should win the Nobel Prize!!
Where are all the rich dudes? Those rich guys that are trying to outdo each other in going to outer space. This has got to be a vital worldwide project.
Cleaning the world’s oceans of plastics is a 911, do it ASAP! Our sea life is dying off dramatically!
Much respect. Would love to work for you.
In a word... Fabulous.
I learned about this guy and his idea in Marine science a couple months ago pretty good.
I am glad you are moving to clean up the Pacific Ocean
WELL DONE, my faith in humanity just spiked.
Very nice idea, and good work!. I am looking forward the results. I am wondering how you will collect all the plastics from those floating cleaning barriers, and after what time? It would be useful to have a GPS and AIS system installed for the tracking and navigation safety of ships. Did you do tested your devices at rough sea conditions?
Wow... Amazing work ✊✊✊👐
Well done your marvellous,you deserve the biggest meddle ever
7:03 Boomy McBoomface a.k.a. Boom 2: Boom Harder. 🤣👌
Keep up the great work!
Great work guys, we gotta keep doing our part
Sensationell Boyan
Dankeschön,
ich sammel mit am Strand.
Thank you, Boyan Slat!
Keep up the good work.
Another great video
Excellent somebody's gotta do it.
You guys deserve a Nobel prize in doing this. But we got to first find a way to stop dumping plastics into the waters...
Iam impressed with this guy...i am proud for him.. he care for the nature as Well for the future generation...this will help the earth to clean the sea.
Awesome - we have hope!
I think it is vital to this project to put a stop to the dumping of trash in the oceans. That creates another problem which is how to recycle trash at the collection sites. An important goal will be to inform the public about recycling and to make it more possible for cities to require recycling by consumers. In my city, Leavenworth, Kansas, we don't recycle. The drop-off location has limited hours which makes it difficult for consumers to drop off recyclable materials. Many people just can't do this and there is little encouragement for the rest.
Maravilloso poder limpiar el mar .
Graciaaasssss