One month of Interceptor 006 Operations in Guatemala: Timelapse
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- Опубликовано: 22 авг 2024
- 953 truckloads of trash extracted in Guatemala this year. Here's a timelapse of one month of Interceptor 006 operations. Subscribe to our RUclips channel to stay updated: bit.ly/371k8sN.
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Interceptor 006 is located in the Rio Las Vacas, around 16 km north of Guatemala City. The Rio Las Vacas is a tributary of the Rio Motagua - one of Guatemala’s main waterways and a significant contributor to plastic emissions into the Gulf of Honduras and the Caribbean Sea.
Waste management challenges mean municipal and sanitary waste from Guatemala City is washed into the Rio Las Vacas during heavy rains, with this waste then flowing into the Rio Motagua and towards the coast. Prior to our deployment, it was estimated that up to 20 million kilograms of plastic waste was emitted from the Rio Motagua into the ocean, each year: much of it via the Rio Las Vacas.
We call our deployment in the Rio Las Vacas the Interceptor Barricade: a set of two strategically located floating booms that capture plastic while allowing the force of the flooding river to pass underneath. The booms are chained to foundations dug deep into the riverside and set in concrete, ensuring Interceptor 006 has the strength and stability needed to stop and retain such enormous quantities of trash repeatedly throughout the rainy season.
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Once again, having this visual representation of the issue and the solution is the key in changing people's minds. I'm sharing this everywhere. Between making this and solar better; we have a way to clean up our messes.
first, people have to care, then act accordingly. Derision is prevalent at this moment so we cannot let go of hope.
Well said! @@linebrunelle1004
*its been proven that a society needs to be at about 6,000 gdp per person before they start caring about the environment. make people richer, and they care more
I agree but we also need to remember that every situation is different. Solar isn't always the best or even a viable option much like this system only works on rivers. But yes by showing solutions in place and supporting those who develop them is the best way to make change happen because it shows people that there is a better way and that we can achieve it.
We don't need solar. It's inefficient and outdated.
There's already much better energy devices. What we need is our government to release them to the public. Big oil doesn't want that though....
The timelapse make it seem like the river is "Breathing". It is indeed life. And imagine that, so much garbage, hindering the river to breathe. Thanks ocean cleanup for this project. I just wish that in my lifetime, I will be able to witness that river to be trashless and that guatemala would have a concrete plan in place for recycling and waste management. I wish for this for my country too.
It's just tides, my dude. The only thing that's breathing there are the birds that came in after a bit to run around atop of the garbage.
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The river is suffocating 😢
@@Peanut_Gallery_411 It's sad to watch it "suffocate' like that but, due to the project, it is also full of hope that one day the river will be garbage free. 💜
@Yutani_Crayven Tides don't follow a predictable 24hr pattern. The question is why is it appearing to breathe on a 24hr period. Is it rainfall or manmade. Rainfall is plausible as some tropical places do have a daily cycle. However I thought it tended to rain in the afternoon and into the evening. Not start raining before daylight.
Seems to follow what you'd typically expect the inflow to a sewage works to be. Is the bulk of the flow of this river actually sewage?
It's really satisfying to see the catch system working so well, and all the garbage being picked up before it reaches the oceans. Well done!
Id love to see how nature is changing/growing in the river past the interceptor or how clean the river looks after collecting all the garbage. Great job, you guys!!!!!
Yes maybe a look at the river below the barrier from before and maybe 6-12 months after and the difference in quality of the water and wild life.
Well we know that the ocean is better off at the minimum.
The garbage sitting in the water before it's collected still leaves harmful toxins/chemicals in the water. Sadly that means the water quality of the river itself won't be perfect until the garbage doesn't enter it in the first place. I'd estimate it takes at least a few miles past the intercepter before a difference becomes noticable. But at least it won't reach the ocean this way.
This is an inconceivable success. It's difficult to comprehend the sheer amount of material stopped from entering downstream and how well the system copes with the tonnage build-up. Absolute kudos to the engineers, and ground crew clearing..
You are doing such a big difference for this planet ! I hope you know how much you are needed and how much of a positive impact you are having on the future of everybody ! All of you , working on these projects , you have all my respect .
I've watched several of your videos on this site, but had no idea this location was so dynamic and changing. Makes the problem solving, engineering, and flexibility of this project even more impressive. Thank you for all the work that you do!
It's cool to see that sometimes the current flows backwards I didn't expect that
Wind blowing the plastic back upstream perhaps
Tidal i assume, given the level goes up and down so much
From another comment:
The fluctuation is manmade and it is bad. Notice how during the day the level rises and falls during the night. This is because there is a hydropower station upstream. During the day there is need for electricity so the hydropower plant is running water downstream. During the night when there is less demand for power they close the turbines, so that the upstream reservoir can refill, resulting in a lower level downstream. These level fluctuations are very bad for aquatic live. At times you can even see the river flowing "backwards", indicated by the barrier bending left.
@@Brabant076 Perhaps if they burn gigatonnes of coal, aquatic life can breathe a bit easier
@@eleycki Agreed, there does seem to be a tidal component along with the flow from the hydro plant upstream. In fact, it appears that they could stand to capture some extra plastics on the ocean side of the barrier during high tides. Perhaps some type of a "floating rake" that pulls what's collected on the downstream side just before the tide starts going down??
You have engineered a system that truly accomplishes the design parameters. But now we learn more questions about this river.
1) There is low flow most nights. Is there a hydro plant upstream or is this the result of less sewage being dumped into the river at night?
2) Several nights in this month long video there is evidence of large amounts industrial dumping. One event turned the entire river and collected trash red by early morning. The second event appeared at your trash boom as large mounds of a whitish foam.
3) It is impossible for the casual viewer to know because we don't know the correlation between high water/trash flow due to rain events in higher elevations of the watershed. BUT, absent rain events, does the trash load increase overnight indicate mass illegal dumping directly into the river under cover of darkness?
As your mission is plastic refuse abatement, you may not be doing water monitoring - and even if you did, who would enforce the law? But perhaps these may be data points that would be useful over the long term.
Can you incentivize the native people to bring their plastic waste to your recycling facility and pay them by the pound for clean plastic waste? Seems the pittance you would have to pay saves the cost of some operating heavy equipment and hauling from the trash boom. Theoretically, you would create a cottage industry of plastics pickers who would collect from households and along stream banks, reducing the volume that makes it all the way to the boom. In the process, you would be empowering more local people to get involved AND feed their children.
Presumably, your work includes raising social and cultural awareness in Guatemala.
Keep up the great work!
previously, they explained the surges of water/trash was due to sudden rain storms upriver that would cause the garage to flow from gullies across town.
@@belleyface Thank you! Yes - I do recall the rainstorm further up the watershed. This video captures a nightly cycle. Waterflow decreases each night and increases as the sun comes up. I'm certain that waterflow increases to max level due to rain events up watershed - but that does not explain the nightly cycle.
@@stevejohnstonbaugh9171 That June 3 night at 4:49 is very suspicious
Looking up guatemala plastic pollution shows this river is one of the biggest "landfills" in all of Latin America, so they is probably all kinds of "illegal" stuff being dumped in that river.
@@bailey2046 Agreed! That is the exception to what I believed to be "typical". Of course, I don't have any facts, but I suspect there was a big rain event up the watershed that began around sunset and continued most of the night. By dawn, the water level had been dropping.
This is so sad but you're doing such amazing work. Thank you for me and my kid and her future kids.
As an educational video, this is gold!
Who, after having watched this timelapse, will not realise that the actual problem is the non-existent garbage management INLAND? This should be mandatory viewing for every single governmental official in Guatemala. And in other countries, too.
I immediately thought about the lack of proper waste management. Trash doesn't magically disappear when you throw it away.
Ocean Cleanup is doing an incredible job! This is such a long-term project; it's amazing to see this kind of commitment on a global scale. It's tempting to think of it as tilting at windmills or cleaning the ocean with a teaspoon, but the only sure-fire way to guarantee failure is do nothing. It is so impressive the way they keep learning and adapting the models to improve the process. Just doing what they are doing is a type of education for the local population that benefits from their efforts. It is leading by example, but I've also seen in other videos that local people are involved in the operations and recycling of the plastic. Thank you Ocean Cleanup for doing the right thing even when it's hard!
This is good and all but how do we get the people of Guatemala to stop dumping all their garbage into the river? Can we invest in their waste management system?
You need to invest in schools and education... it takes a long time to change the mentality of people.
Education! and an infrastructure.
@lore00star Yes, educating folks on the proper thing to do is needed, but there has to be infrastructure on place for them to be able to do the proper thing.
the dump is upstream - right next to the river... It's a perpetual cycle with no end in sight :(
They need an adequate waste management system, not just dumping trash into the river with the "out of sight out of mind" mentality
The collected waste and this video should be displayed publicly for some awareness and education especially in schools and community centres. There is no end to this cycle.
Ignorant citizens made this happen. Give them some incentive to not just throw trash out the window. Poverty is not an excuse.
@@SandDunePropertiesIt's also an ignorant government when it comes to waste management and banning plastic bags under a certain thickness.
Lack of plastic recycling plants also adds to the problem
@@SandDuneProperties In poor areas, there's no garbage pickup.
@@SandDunePropertiesWhat are they supposed to do, eat it?
Muchas gracias por todo lo que están haciendo, ustedes hacen del mundo un lugar mejor y le dan a la humanidad la esperanza de un futuro ❤
That is just in 1 month.. Just wow.
Right ? ! Now think about it multiplied by the previous decades of months. Tragic for the ecosystem. ☹️
@@blueman5924 not a suprise that there is a garbage patch in pacific (the most known). I always thought it was the west countries were polluting the most but with this footage, how wrong I was 😀
the sheer amount of what we dump is mind boggling. I used to work in a small clothes store in my town, each day we had 2-3 large yellow sacks full of plastic waste. This is one store in one day, imagine all of the hundreds of stores in my town every day...I honestly sometimes think humanity deserves to be wiped out, and I can only laugh when people are shocked that every third of us have some sort of cancer, or that we are all unhealthy. I mean, all this ultimately ends up in our bodies. What this trash-system does should be mandatory and not some sort of volunteer work.
Amazing and horrifying to watch.
To think this all would have previously ended up washing up on beaches and out into the wider ocean.
Now the path is plugged to stop the plastic escaping now the harder work comes in working with governments and communities to minimise the waste entering the watercourses in the first place.
Great job all 😊
At 1:08 on May 14 right after midnight, there's a bunch red liquid dumped into the river. I wonder if that happens on the same day the next month. As long as they have a consistent cadence, it should be traceable upstream.
This is insane. The amount from one month is unreal. The amount of plastic in the ocean has to be greatly under calculated IMO.
I agree!!
Fantastic work to prevent this waste making it to the ocean. But these barriers should be the last safety net to catch anything missed by main recycling and disposal efforts. The same effort needs to go into educating communities and raising awareness to address the root cause. I have travelled Guatemala and witnessed many locals opening bus windows and simply throwing their rubbish out on the highway.
I fully appreciate that refuse collection and processing is different to home, but this plastic waste could be collected in locations around towns and villages and processed or disposed of just as these truckloads will be. But it’s easier to simply throw it out of the window which is why education and awareness are vital to reducing waste in the rivers and oceans.
I hope that one day ocean cleanup will no longer be needed and every person will dispose of their waste responsibly.
I was always taught to throw my trash in the garbage can, not all over the street. Why do these people have this mentality? Who teaches them that this is ok? Why doesn't anyone teach them about staying clean environment?
No no you can't say that. Global south are innocent victims and they are forced by evil north to throw trash outside the window of the bus.
@@kris78787 laziness, lack of regular refuse collections around town, or simply because it’s what people have always done?
I suspect a combination. If a child watches their parent do it, they too will do it. So education in schools is vital, then children may challenge their parents, in turn educating them on why not to.
I think it’ll take a couple of generations to really get under control but believe it is possible given the required focus on tackling the root cause and not just the result.
@@charliehewitt-dean2034 thank you for the explanation. I have always wondered why people just throw their trash all over without any remorse. I think though, isn't it a common sense to want a clean environment? How do people stand living in such filth and smell?
Hopefully the government of this country doesn't decide that it's far cheaper to employ 2 excavators cleaning out a river than 1000's of trucks collecting rubbish from bins locally.
This video provided me some much needed hope for humanity. Thank you for your efforts!
So grateful for your love and action of our planet!
These are the projects we need more of! The generational thinking, planting trees for the kids!
wonderful to see how resilient the river barrier here is in stopping trash from going further- thank you for all the important work you are doing around the world!
It doesn't matter how many barriers you put across the rivers. If the people living around the rivers don't stop throwing trash onto the rivers, it will never be cleaned
Yes. The muni of Antigua establish that huge garbage dump between two main roads on a hill so it drains down into a small river and a village
And look what happened just north of Amatitlan. The government put a huge dump at the head of a large valley and all the filthy water and germs and horrible things contaminate all the water going out to the ocean. And you can’t even breathe driving past it.
So what is your solution exactly?
The fact that there was no good way for people around the river to dispose of their trash does not mean one should ignore the problem of the trash heading into the ocean, dispersing further, and being far more difficult to clean up. One step at a time. How the trash gets into the river is a local problem (multiple localities, not just one). It is out of scope for Ocean Cleanup. They can't solve all the trash problems in the world.
This is nothing to do with people dropping rubbish into rivers. People in poor countries with no formal rubbish collection system just drop their rubbish in the streets, or on patches of waste ground. It then gets washed into the rivers nwhen it rains. This is not malign or stupid human behaviour...it is just poverty in action.
If you ever have thrown out something out your car on a road - you're part of the problem. It will get washed into the river after the next storm.
It brings a tear to my eye that people exist in this world that just want to make things better. Thanks.
Thanks for all that you do to help preserve our oceans and humanity.
Looks like the people in Guatemala havent gotten the message that the river isnt a place to dump. Great job. Great videos.
In some of their early videos on the subject they show that the riverhead originates near a large city. Most of the garbage is actually flushed from the city, and from the existing dump into the river during rainfalls. The issue is that the country as a whole doesn't have the garbage collection infrastructure it needs to keep this happening.
No kidding... Of course there was a lot on the river banks that I assume washes down with the rain. Perhaps people are raking and 'pushing' it downstream knowing that the Interceptor 6 is going to catch it. Hopefully the government is investing in a recycling plan.
@@wayneshelson7295 absolutely. This cleanup has been going on for some time with no end in site. There's a cost. People have always done it this way. This organization I doubt in any way funded by Guatemalan government. Get people upstream to physically help.
It’s the government who dumps it not the people 😊
Humanity is a scourge on this planet, but you all are trying and i appreciate that.
Amazing work by The Ocean Cleanup!
Imagine the world as a neighborhood. Every country is a house. The streets and sidewalks are the oceans that separate us. Some houses are in better shape than others, fresh paint, cut grass, nice car in the driveway. Everyone is doing their best to live a clean and healthy life. However, there are some homes that are in really bad shape. The people who live there are very nice, but trash is pilling up all around, it's beginning to spill over the side walk and into the street. It is no longer just an eye sore, it is now affecting the entire neighborhood. Just when the situation seems unsolvable, a few friendly neighbors from down the street walk over and start picking up the garbage. Bag after bag, truck load after truck load, they keep working to remove all the piled up trash. More people join in and see that progress is being made. It is a wonderful thing to see, maybe we can actually clean up the street, people say with excitement!
The owners of the house look through the windows to see their neighbors cleaning up their mess. This is the critical moment, do I take responsibility for my poor choices or do I look away? Do I walk out and meet my new friends in the street, thank them and begin to clean up my mess, or do I drag out more bags of trash and dump them in the street?
Just used this video to relax and take some 'me time' thanks for the work you guys do
imagine the amount that has entered the oceans before these efforts took place. Thanks for all your efforts to stop this from continuing 🍻
You don't have to imagine. You can just go look up the great pacific garbage patch or one of the others. ones.
This just shows the lack of waste management and disregard for disposal. It’s amazing what this organization is doing, but people everywhere need to do their part in eliminating waste and waste making its way to the water ways. Use less.
Bravo to your efforts! I can't believe it fills up with trash every 3 days or so. Puts it in perspective how much trash gets dumped into the ocean, and this is just in Guatemala
I just love this. The mentality the idea the project. Im glad im alive to see this. Very kool person to come up with all this and it works. Just amazing!
Any manufacturer of plastic that's non-biodegradable should be forced to pay into funds that employ systems like this to clean up their mess instead of forcing us to do it for them.
Or people should be responsible for their own actions and not throw it in the river 🤷♂️
@@quiff2004not gonna work. Any solution relying on everybody to be responsible is not gonna work. We need structural changes. It's far easier to change 1000 garbage stations or 1000 factories than the minds of 10'000'000 people
The fossil fuel industry… known for their environmental awareness! 😂 But yes, I agree.
Bro, that's a myth. Plastics do degrade. It's why there's "micro plastics". Depending on how long it's been there, that plastic will either turn brittle, and start to crack and chip, or it'll disintegrate into these flakes.
@@abdimwenda1855 They degrade, but not all the way…
Thank you for the commitment to hard, dirty work.
ASMR for sure. The locals really get it cleaned up very well - this system is awesome!!!!
So grateful for the work you are all doing for our planet. Thank you.
Wow. You are doing an amazing job. Thank you so much
put up a secondary barrier! great work!!! fantastic!
thank you for what you are doing
While it is wonderful to see the system is working, I wish we could see a decrease in the pollution that is being put in the waterways in the first place.
Yeah, that was pretty depressing seeing just how much they'd clean up, only to have like, a literal dump worth of plastic hit the river again.
"We" in Western countries already have reduced the trash flow into rivers.
But "they" in 3rd world countries have not. Its not a high priority for these governments and most people don't give a damn.
I absolutely love watching your processes and how you continue to innovate for the most optimal outcome ... Gosh I sound like such a robot, but its true 😅 be proud of your work, its literally changing the world for the better 🌎❤
Doing AMAZING work! I've been supporting you guys for many many years, long before there was a working system out. Will continue to support this vital and important work for many many years to come! Let's get rid of plastics from the water!
@TheOceanCleanUp - Where possible - please make an effort to see that this video is shown, repeatedly, in every K-12 school in all major population centres and, where possible, rural Guatemala for the next 10 years. Thank you.
Thank you so much you guys are doing great work 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Enjoyed from Texas!
Incredible the barrier is able to withstand that much weight. Looks like it is flexible. Amazing engineering!
Thank you, this video needs to be shown all over the world!
Thank you for this video. That was amazing to see
I wuold think it is impossible to find such quantity of garbaje in such little space. Thanks for your job.
unthinkable that all of this has been going to the oceans for the past years....
Likely the past several decades!
Incredible! Quite a difference from the chain link prototype barrier. ❤❤❤
Thank you.
It doesnt seem possible that there could be that much trash day after day. Thanks for sharing. Charles
Now we need about thousand more of these river filters to make large scale progress but it is a good sign that there is some progress !
Amazing work! Very sad to see all of that plastic trash that would have gone into the ocean…. Just one river imagine the thousands of rivers we are polluting :(‘’
Incredible work! Does Guatemala try and solve the issue with the waste management though? Or will systems like this just give people the mindset that their problem can be caught down stream and it isnt their issue?
My fear is that it becomes the same mindset as leaving shopping carts randomly in the parking lot. "Someone else will take care of it."
I'm wondering the same thing, why hasn't the government been more proactive in stopping this trash crisis?
Sanctions on Guatemala for not respecting nature!
Because the government is indifferent and corrupt, like in many countries where the people are poor.
@@kris78787 $$$
Go Ocean Cleanup. Stay safe
It's mind-blowing to multiply this by all the rivers around the globe that feed trash into the oceans. this is a small start, but it is scalable and can make a huge difference. How to deal with all the plastics in an equally important issue. Makes me dizzy just to think about it.
Love to see how effective the river barrier is! Stopping all that plastic from making its way into the ocean ecosystem! Keep up the good work!
006 is working on that mighty continuous flow of trash like a Boss & Great work to all that are involved!
Well, that was depressing. Thank you for working on tirelessly though, its incredible to think that from version 1 this has been born.
In case you were wondering - the dump is upstream - right next to the river... It's a perpetual cycle with no end in sight :(
Is it a commercial dump or an illegal one?
@@Yutani_Crayvenit's the official Guatemala city dump
Source??
@@bretthollingshead7810 Check out another Ocean Cleanup's video on this river about a year ago - it's explained there.
THANK YOU! ❤️❤️❤️🌍🌏🌎❤️❤️❤️
Amazing to see how the river moves around add the time. It’s so satisfying when they come and empty all the plastic out🥹
Great work as always, guys you’re making a real difference ❤
Thank you.
So cool! Keep up the good work!
Oh my gosh!! All that endless trash!! Those poor fish that live in that nasty river 😢😢😢😢 RIP fish 🐠🐠🐠😢😢😢
That "water" looks dead...did you see the pink?
@@lokinsimone that's industrial waste from textile mills 😢
Amazing. Great work.
Imagine this same amount of trash of every river not having this going straight into the ocean over the same amount of time it's crazy
Thank You = ALL !!!
You guys and gals freaking rocks !
deeply compelling and sooo satisfying!
great job guys
Thank You so much this is incredible.
I am so thankful for your project. I pray that the amazing footage you guys have will prompt the stop or at least slow the use of plastics. It us a cheap alternative, but it comes at a cost.
We can do better for our world. 💜
Imagine filtering the water as well. Beautiful work
Amazing video, thanks for making the world a better place.
Amazing work. ❤
That's just heartbreaking to watch. I hope people living in Guatemala see this and get educated and help in the form of better waste management.
It's amazing to see one evening after what must have been a storm upriver turned up. When I slowed it down, there were 17 dump truck loads in one day. That's what happens when you use a river to dump your trash. Then there are surges of foam, possibly phosphates, showing up. The brown water which is probably the runoff from sewers doesn't help either.
How can there Ibe so much trash in just one month that’s insane
It's such a beautiful thing to me to see humans doing something to clean up the planet instead of making it worse. This video gives me hope.
Well done everyone involved.great work!
Amazing to see… I actually checked after a few cycles of the plastics being removed & more appearing that I wasn’t watching a RUclips Shorts that was doing an endless cycle!!
Amazing amazing amazing work. THANK YOU 🙏🏼
Wow! So much trash in the river!! It’s so sad to see how people disrespect the Earth.
But it gives me great hope that folks like you and your team are working to resolve the problem and raise awareness.
Thank you for all you are doing!💙🙏🏽🌏
Besides the trash, that plant rejuvenating each night is awesome!
great, Great, GReat, GREat, GREAt, GREAT JOB !
Respect for these people
Thanks again gang!Saving lives literally!Feeling Grateful cheers
God Bless you guys for the work you are doing for this planet!
Can’t wait to see how you guys optimize the collection/ consolidation of the trash into the trucks. The use of excavators is an obvious limiting factor in the productivity and efficiency of the system.
WOW. That is amazing. You guys are doing such great things.
Every city should have one of those
4:30 its cool that the extra high ‘tide’ caught debris from higher up on the banks of the river so the catch was even greater. Amazing good work. Wish i could help (besides using less plastic!)
this will never end
THANK YOU ❤️