GAME OVER! End of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
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- Опубликовано: 28 май 2024
- Did you know that most of the discarded garbage ends up in the oceans, forming garbage patches? Environmentalists from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation British fund have even calculated that if garbage disposal continues at this same rate, then by 2025 there will be 1 kilogram of garbage for every 3 kilograms of fish. And by 2050, there will be more garbage than fish in all the world's oceans. Although many environmental organizations are trying to solve this problem, it looks like only the Ocean Cleanup has come close to solving the problem of the large garbage patch.
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1:07 -- there's a mistake here. The garbage patch is 1.6 *million* square kilometers, NOT 1.6 square kilometers :) so, yes, it is the twice the size of Texas.
Or thrice the size of France
I was huh that’s actually small
As of Americans didn’t understand the metric system enough, now they’re gonna think a kilometre is WAY bigger than it is lol
Gave the video a dislike because they can't even be bothered to check their figures.
Dude I was freaking out hahaha thank you
1.6 km2 is about 2 football stadiums. I think you missed a million times
I was also quite confused by this.
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@@dubstrippin that's 1.6 kilometers squared which is a hell of a lot larger than 2 football stadiums. It's equal to about 395 acres :O
@@RobertDeloyd the point is it’s nowhere near “2 Texas’s”, it’s about a square mile…
Me too.
This project is extremely admirable. I applaud everyone involved in this monumental task.
its not...
Another colossal error in the video, it was already pointed out by Lindsay Dempsey. To add to his comment, the majority of the contents of the patches are discarded and broken fishing nets. By far the most dangerous items in the ocean.
And who on this planet primarily eat fish, Asians or the North Americans?
A factual error in the video, plastic that goes into land fill stays in land fills, especially sanitary landfills in the developed world. Marine plastics comes mostly from carelessly discarded garbage that gets carried off by stormwater entering rivers and streams or by people directly dumping into streams and water ways. The latter is definitely a problem in some parts of the developing world.
I fully applaud the efforts to clear marine plastics from the world's oceans, but it is also essential to stop it getting in there in the first place, that is another area where serious effort is required.
There is no garbage patch. There are no photographs of it at all. It is then said to exist under water, which is not possible
I must live in teh developing world in Northern California then :( The riverbank here is just covered in trash that idiots dump along the side. It's heartbreaking.
That plastic is not carelessly disgarded. It is sent carelessly in form of products, packaging or waste(!) to countries which do not posess the infrastructure to deal with it. So it is clearly a problem of the developped world!
@@markusschellenberg4684 you're on the right track, yes. We've enabled companies to just dump their crap where ever because of 'progress'. Instead of holding them accountable from DAY ONE like we should have. Now, here we are.
@@jglammi It's not possible for things to sink?
"The patch covers an estimated 1.6 million square kilometers-roughly three times the size of France-and currently floats between Hawaiʻi and California." - Wikipedia
To the ones, like myself that got confused with the size in minute 1:04
You can find some articles that support this as well, in National Geographic and other places.
When I first heard of this from environmentalists,they made it sound like there was a literal island,that you could walk on out of plastics out in the pacific..
That made me think :"that not so bad" when I saw the reality of it.
Yeah he says 1.6 square kilometers which is nowhere even close to the size of 2 texas's I WOULD KNOW I LIVE IN F*CKING TEXAS get you facts straight.
@@ThePhantom-bp4qh big difference between 1.6 sq km and 1.6 million sq. km
@@ThePhantom-bp4qh I see you didn't read... "1.6 MILLION square kilometers", now, kindly correct yourself.
@@jordankyte9203 YES! Precisely one MILLION time different!
*The Interceptor* , maybe Ocean Cleanup's biggest step to stop ocean pollution.
While it's important to clean up the garbage patches, I would also say that its equally important tor deal with the problem at the source.
The majority of the garbage that enter the ocean, comes from waterways that ends up in rivers.
And that is specifically from the underdeveloped areas, with lacking garbage management.
Areas like Indonesia, Malesia, India and China.
That is where Ocean Cleanup have made their best innovation in my eyes.
The Interceptor!
A project that can be scaled up and be mass produced, onboard solar powered batteries, and nearly automictically operated.
Yes but it will continue to happen as long as companies continue to pump out plastic cups, eating utensils and the proverbial thorn in everyone's ass, the much maligned "blister packaging" or hermetically sealed plastic for electronics and other items.
The simplest solution for most is to return to cardboard. It's renewable, recyclable, and it will substantially reduce the need for petroleum based plastic in the first place.
@@deathstrike There are some things I do not mind much, for example ''hermetically sealed plastic for electronics''.
This because of the potential carbon footprint for making a new device and fuel for transport, if the device malfunction because of bad packaging.
But for things like 'Pre-peeled' oranges in individual plastic-packages.....yeah those need to go!
When it comes to single use plastics (cups, plates, utensils....) the company will continue to manufacture it, as long as people buy it.
As long as people buy it, it's profitable.
As long it's profitable to make single use plastics, they WILL make it.
If it's not profitable to make single use plastics, they WON'T make it.
If this should be changed, if must be a from a ''Down-Top'' approach, and not ''Top-Down''.
*WE* need to use the ''power as a consumer'' to influence market, if there is to be a change.
Buy from places that use or have eco-friendly alternatives (Bioplastics, paper, bamboo....)
But this will also cost more, and I do believe that the majority of people will buy the '5$ for 50 plastic plates' *VS.* '20$ for 50 compostable plant fiber plates'.
When plastics enter into a statistic, it's already at a processing facility, and thus being managed.
It's the numbers that ''aren't in any statistics'', that concern me the most.
And it's this plastic that ends up where it should not be (the sea, mountains, forrest, you name it).
They are. Their project goes beyond the ocean itself. they also work on cleaning the worst rivers, and scooping up garbage before it reaches the ocean. They try to include locals as much as possible (see Jamaica). the problem is governments aren't investing enough in keeping stuff clean and infrastructure in poor area's. Goverments also aren't strict enough to their big companies and factories on where and how and how much waste they are allowed to dump. It's poor people with no proper acces to garbage disposel, and rich companies who just ditch their junk in rivers without the government stepping up or being stricter in controlling how these companies opperate, that cause this shit for the most part. Both are part of the same problem. A society that focuses on wealth above else. Wealth focus and competition creates both poverty, and greedy companies that will do anything for profit.
Walk the beached of USA in the summer. Look at all the plastic that washes into the ocean.
Bravo for The Ocean Cleanup from The Netherlands 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
5:11 "People also continue to use plastic in their daily life and throw it into landfills where it eventually ends up in rivers seas and oceans."
That's not how landfills work. The garbage in the ocean comes from a limited number of rivers in Asia and Africa where people use them as a trash service.
If those people were serviced by landfills we wouldn't have a problem with trash in the ocean. It would be limited to mostly just lost fishing gear which is a different problem.
Land fills do not 'leak' trash into the environment.
You are thinking of landfills in 1st world countries.
Also taking into account the cities here in America that have garbage hauled out past our 14 mile mark and dumped...why aren't you mentioning that?
Oh yeah...it's American...we know we do stupid environmental disasterous 💩!
🤔We're pristine 😇 🙄
Who wrote the script for this video?! I gave up when the narrator said throw plastic into landfills where it eventually ends up in rivers seas and oceans. Also, 1.6 square kilometres being 3X the size of France. I have my doubts! There is too much mindless copy & paste garbage floating in the internet ocean.
Agreed. I was about to say all that, and you saved me the trouble. Thanks!
Ya, here in the US our trash is mostly hauled to landfills outside the cities where some of it was sorted. When the landfill gets to the desired size it's covered with dirt and then they extract methane. Some people who live outside of cities still burn their trash.
If I recall, there was an individual named Marino whom Nas Daily featured on his channel whom figured out a formula that cleaned up a lake that is now once again a healthy water source after years of being polluted. Maybe they could collaborate for the tougher garbage patches to help dispose of the waste quicker?
Yeah I saw that video too I think it said that the formula was expensive
I think that lake just turned green and wasn't full of plastic if I'm not mistaken
It did not dispose the waste it only made it easier to clean
And make real progress what are you crazy these ideas are only good for distractions
@@yahir-amandahuertasserrano8489 It's not going to make it easier,the formula might have worked with a lake, but the extension of a whole ocean it's on a different level which chemicals would need to be produced in a gigantic mass in order to even cover a decimal of the problem, not only that..... Those chemical are made to clean the water, not for the disposal of garbage, meaning it's basically throwing a bar of soap into a massive mass of shit and wondering why it's not cleaning.
REMEMBER: To recycle plastic adds 1 more use. To REUSE can add WAY MORE life.
EX: Some Yogurt Containers are #5 Plastic, which is Heat & Cold Resistant. So it's GREAT to reuse at home!
I'm glad this problem is not overlooked, we all need to recycle and avoid the use of plastic as much as possible
100%
Bless the people who care and take action. This is pretty awesome to see
Glad MrBeast made these guys popular, more people are gonna help
I pray that those working on climate change discover video conferencing technology
God I love dumping garbage into the ocean
@@rydz656 🤨
Yup. Other people criticize the solution while dumping rubbish in the bin.
I'm sure he meant to say 1.6 million square kilometers. The GPGP covers an estimated surface area of 1.6 million square kilometers, an area twice the size of Texas or three times the size of France as of 2020. Should have caught that in post-production and added a text correction on the video if he couldn't redo the voice-over. Landfills have their own problems but are NOT a major contributor to plastic in the ocean. 80% of the world’s ocean plastics enter the ocean via rivers and coastlines. The other 20% come from marine sources such as fishing nets, ropes, and fleets. To tackle plastic pollution we need to know where these plastics are coming from. Previous studies suggested that a very small number of rivers were responsible for the vast majority of ocean plastics: 60% to 90% of plastics came from only ten rivers.
Higher-resolution mapping and consideration for factors such as climate, terrain, land use, and distance to the ocean suggests that many smaller rivers play a bigger role than we thought. It takes 1,600 of the biggest emitting rivers to account for 80% of plastic inputs to the ocean.
It is estimated that 81% of ocean plastics come from Asian rivers. The Philippines alone contribute around one-third of the global total. Since the number of contributing rivers is much higher than previously thought, we will need global efforts to improve waste management and plastic collection rather than targeting only a few of the largest rivers.
This. Says everything that I wanted to say!
Yeah he said it wrong- however the text was correct though. 1,6 km^2 = 1,600,000 :)
@@Lumpcas 1.6 X 1.6 = 2.56 anything.
Just a bad voice-over with no meaningful checking or editing. Typical of social media posts. But, good that somebody's trying to clean it up - I'm sure not!
@@Lumpcas The error in the order of magnitude is a very small part of this comment. What is more significant are the sources of plastic pollution re: landfills and rivers.
That's horrible that all that garbage eventually ends up in the oceans, but it's good news what is happening to clean it all up. We have a new tshirt in our store, with a big message about pollution, for those who may be interested in joining the movement.
"People continue to use plastic daily" Well yes, but don't side shift the blame. "So because companies rely so heavily on plastic for their products" is where the blame needs to be shifted. Glass really needs to make a comeback, also we should be phasing plastic out with alternatives; however if you blame people and not companies, nothing will ever change.
You are absolutely right my friend. I keep telling all my environmentalist friends who become swallowed by the guilt of using plastic that it's not their fault. It's capitalism's fault.
Plastic is becoming rarer and rarer here in Canada thankfully
but plastic is safer glass it doesnt cut you when it breaks thats why we are using it also you could just recyle its not that hard my country barely produces waist 90% of all trash is recyled here you could go across the entire country and not found a single trash on the floor and its not even that people care or give a shit about the envirement its simply became apart of our culture its something we do instictivly so no we dont need allternatives people just need to learn how to recyle and not be pieces of shit
Most of that garbage comes from a few rivers in India and China, wouldn’t it be a wise addition to place traps like this near the mouths of the rivers to catch the debris? Also, wouldn’t it be more efficient to create sea going processing plants to shred the plastics on site then transfer to other ports for recycling? The sunglasses idea is great, but processes in Canada and ships the material to Italy for manufacturing - not an efficient use of resources there
thankyou, i'm fed up with being made to feel guilty over this
Or dam them!
Yes, I also saw a program where it showed the Amazon being used officially as the city dump, the road had been extended to the edge of the river and tipper trucks backed up and tipped tons of rubbish in. In their minds, as soon as the river took it away it was not their problem….
Maybe try to educate the population on better ways to deal with their own waste
EXACTLY
While I fully support cleaning up our mess in the ocean (and have donated to support it), just cleaning the ocean feels a little like trying to repair fire damage before you even call the fire department. I suspect it would be much cheaper to clean up the trash on the banks of rivers in a few 3rd world countries, and then provide permanent solutions, rather than waiting until it is in the ocean. Not to mention, not all trash floats at the surface or even stays intact. I am no scientist, but I suspect trash beneath the surface isn't much better for the fish. Also WTF, trash in proper landfills does not end up in the ocean!
third world countries? you mean Canada? take a ride along the road ways.. walk along the creeks' rivers' put goggles on and look at the bottom of the waterways' and edges of the oceans which in areas are smotherd' blanketed with plastic bags of all colors, look over the edge of the roadways.. they have been letting the terrorist polluters' get away with it for years' ingrates break glass bottles alover' animals slice their paws, birds caught up in fishing gear and nets' idiots dump fuels on the edges of the waterways, they can set up cameras and hire officers to right tickets and issue fines..
There is no garbage patch. There are no photographs of it at all. It is then said to exist under water, which is not possible
You have places like downtown Baltimore people just throw their plastic bags right down the sewers with other trash which goes right into the harbor eventually getting pushed down to the Chesapeake Bay and then the Atlantic Ocean. It's hard to educate the ignorance that exists in places like this.
@@jglammi Did you watch the video?
They are cleaning rivers in several places.
There is a British man down in Mexico whom turned plastic bottles and bags that held the bottles as a buoyancy system attached to wooden pallets with sand and mangroves placed on top. This allowed the mangroves to develop roots that dug into the plastic bags and wooden pallets, turning the wood and sand into soil and securing the plastic bottles and bags in place. Thus making a viable floating island that recycles the plastic and can be used by smaller aquatic life.
Perhaps some of the plastic in the ocean is from coastal cities, but the vast majority of it comes from the fishing industry. Those folks are out to sea for weeks, sometimes months. They live off of shelf stable foods packaged in plastic, drink six packs packaged in plastic, they brush their teeth with plastic toothbrushes, they eat and drink off of disposable dishes and just dump it over the side. Millions of fisherman in the pacific ocean daily, I'm surprised the garbage patch is this small...
I agree that cleaning the GPGP is important, it seems that stopping the flow of garbage to it should be a higher priority. What causes that is three issues:
1) Plastic is frequently used to create items that are intended of it becoming trash - primarily single use items and also packaging but also wearable items that have a relatively short lifespan (
Between 40 and 60 % of oceanic plastic garbage are fishing nets, string and other things that come with them. Oopsie
@@vjaceslavsavsjaniks6431 I had not heard that before. Could you please provide a reference to where your got that information?
Stop kicking the fucking can down the road until we reach some sort of garbage free utopia. "Clean shit out of the ocean" is cheap and easy, and makes a material impact, while "We should, just, ya know, completely change civilization overnight" isn't a practical solution, and asking for it just means *NOTHING* gets done.
@@RandominityFTW Great, since you belive "Clean shit out of the ocean" is "cheap and easy". Seem like you should follow your own advice and "Stop kicking the fucking can down the road" and just start a GoFundMe and get the money and do it yourself.
@@connecticutaggie There is an article called “Ghost fishing gear” published by WWF and a little correction is nets and strings only account for about 10% of all pollution in the ocean but 46% of pollution in the GPGP
funny how a mature young adult, with barely much money has started to dent (barely) the trash issue, yet governments, businesses etc with their "massive" educational nonsense couldn't do what the Young man did here. and still wont help him out.
He got all the money for that theatre from NGO, corporations and charitable trusts. He was well paid for the show, he is a grifter and a con man. Anybody knows you stop problems at their source, not after the fact.
The government is useless. The biggest con in the world is governments making people believe that they serve any kind of function beyond extremely basic physical protection. And in a rapidly shrinking world, there's a decreasing need even for that. So government should be wholly obsolete in 10-20 years.
actually you must do both. Unfortunately stopping this trash at the source is a diplomatic nightmare.
Wouldn't really say that this is the end of the garbage patch. So far, system 002 from the Ocean Cleanup program removed about 30,000 kg or 30 tons of plastic debris from the GPGP. The total amount of plastic that is estimated to be inside the GPGP is about 2.7 million tons. So we're about 0.001% of the way there. Not to mention that the gargage patch increases tenfold every two decades or so and that most plastics are widely dispersed microplastics that are near impossible to fish out of the ocean...
It's fantastic that organizations like these try to fix a problem caused by millions of people, it's definitely better than nothing. But saying that this is the end for the GPGP is just not true.
Not only that but many marine scientists are skeptical of the claims of how much plastic was actually removed. Not to mention the harm to marine animals caught in the trawling nets ("bycatch"). There's also the carbon emissions from the boats being used as well as the inescapable fact that "recycling" plastic doesn't really work more than a few times and that by manufacturing new plastic goods you risk repeating the plastic pollution cycle all over again
70% of what you throw in your US "recycle bin" is shipped to other countries, mostly the south asian countries where it primarily is either burned as fuel (instead of wood) or ends up back in the ocean...
In other words, those plastic straws/starbucks cups/and plastic bags you use at the supermarket end up in the ocean no matter what "Bin" your throwing it in.
Ironically, just doing normal landfills instead of recycling, would stop that…
@@jamesbizs Ironically just stop using plastic straws, starbucks cups, and plastic bags would fix the problem ;3
@@MerchantIvoryfilms Plastic Straws are the LEAST of our worries. Banning them is a "feel good" solution that just pisses off most people. Let's ban plastic drinking water bottles and for sure, plastic shopping bags.
@@88KeysIdaho wrong you have no clue what your talking about, google it if you care, but sounds like you enjoy the sound of your voice more lol
@@MerchantIvoryfilms So you really think plastic straws are actually an issue? I was primarily agreeing with you on what you said, but you felt the need to be insulting?
Sounds like improvement. As I understand it, there are only 10 rivers in the world that contribute more 95% of the World's floating garbage. A gal in Denmark has found that a catch basin and a slanting air tube that expels a curtain of fine air bubbles will collect most or all of the floating and suspended bits of plastic in the water.
When you miss a simple calculation like square kilometers 1.6 for gpgp(?) Vs over 690,000 square kilometers for one Texas it fall into question all of the other data elements in this post. GPGP and others are real issues, but get your data correct!!!
Like the "Did you know that most of the discarded garbage ends up in the oceans" line. Surely that is not the case.
Great to see someone has come up with one solution. Hopefully with more and more and the rest of us helping in our own way we can solve this one Global issue.
Awesome. Now I won’t feel so bad dumping my garbage in the ocean every week. Thx all!!
AT 5:14 : The narrator makes an inconsistent statement. If plastic is being tossed into landfills -- which is buried, covered with dirt -- how is the plastic ending up in rivers and ultimately the ocean. Often landfills are no where near rivers and oceans. The more likely possibility is when China started refusing recyclables based on its cleanliness or lack of proper sorting (or both) the recyclables got dumped into the ocean on the ship's return voyage to its home port.
Alot of countries simply throw their garbage in the nearby river, which ends up at sea. I am sure many DO dumb whole barges in the ocean though. I just know for fact that a ton of places use rivers like a dumpster. It's always been cheaper and easier to do it that way. More advanced countries simply won't allow that, and it was cheaper for them to ship to china.
The Pacific garbage patch is almost entirely from refuse in rivers from China and Southeast Asia. But that fact is seldom mentioned by advocates.
Yeah, it is what it is. The big economic machine doesn't really care much so long as they're making $$$. The only thing anyone can really do it try to source their products and goods from countries with more sustainable manufacturing processes. That said, until recently, they all had factories in china. Some have left or are leaving. That doesn't mean they won't just set up in laos or vietnam or somewhere that will do the same thing though.
1.6 km2 is about two city blocks.
There are a lot of 3rd world countries in Asia and they don't have the resources to manage such huge amount of plastic.
What do the western countries like US do with their plastic? They send the plastic to these countries instead of managing it by themselves.
This is an excellent program, however, the great garbage patch is primarily a Central American problem.
Example: only 2% of oceanic trash in the area comes from the United States and Canada, while the remainder comes from countries that don't care or won't take responsibility for their contribution to this mess.
Groups like this from Canada and the US are essentially cleaing up the world's garbage.
Those irresponsible countries should put conservation efforts into practice in their individual countries, as well as help clean up this mess.
I don't remember where I heard this... but I thought that I understood that the trash in the oceans was primarily coming from China and also a goodly amount from India.
@@melissachartres3219 A huge amount of trash is dumped onto the ocean by both of those countries. However, most of it ends up in the Indian Ocean and washes ashore as far away as Australia and Africa. The Indians have their own nightmare growing along their shores due to corruption and no one giving a damn. Google Indian beaches to see it for yourself. Both of these countries have terrible records for cleaning up their own messes, tied to over population along the coasts, which just exacerbates the problem.
Maybe a small token to compensate for the incredible amount of CO2 and methane that the USA and Canada is pumping into the air?
@@rickb3078 China puts more CO2 into the atmosphere than the entire western world combined
Occidental countries send some of their trash in asian countries to get them "recycled", which end up in the oceans.
This countries are at fault as they didn't take care enough about their trash and ours, but we have a part of responsability here.
Humanity is not perfect, but just look at these efforts. Efforts like this makes humanity beautiful!
Bless these people that are doing this sort of thing. I just wish that instead of telling us that our garbage "ends" up in the ocean or that we need to stop using plastic, they should tell us "how" it is ending up in the ocean. Is it because garbage fills are dumping the trash directly into the ocean? Is it because of weather blowing trash into the ocean? It is people on the beaches who do not seem to know what to do with their trash? If we knew these things then maybe we could stop this at its source rather then simply trying to help the symptom. But do not get me wrong, what these people are doing are amazing and I support them completely and I hope in the end, this will help clean the damage that has been done.
1:05: 1.6 square kilometres? Credibility shot.
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I applaud your efforts. Despite regulations requiring us to "recycle" (i.e. separate plastic, glass, paper from garbage) it is now simply overlooked and all refuse is tipped into one bin headed to Mt. Trashmore. State leaders say there are no viable (money making)options to perform the required services). The former state run recycling center, is now in private hands and only takes that material from which they can turn a profit. Surly there are enough abandoned former manufacturing sites where the "stuff" can be repurposed remade.
Rant over. Narragansett Bay
Resurrect your 2nd Amdndment and things will start to turn around
As long as politicians and businesses only look at making a profit, the pollution of the planet will continue unabated. Some human endeavors simply are not profitable and are still required to keep the planet habitable by our species. This is an example of a serious problem exasperated by capitalism where capitalism itself cannot solve the problem it is creating, nor does not seek to do so.
We have a sorting facility where humans sort the garbage and machines cheaper and more efficient then having separate bins we use one bin
@@lutomson3496 The problem is, like in Seattle where I live, they used to send their recycle to China. But China stopped accepting it for processing. So for years now, we all separate our garbage from the recycling. Putting them into two different cans. They pick them up in two different trucks, and then both trucks go to the landfill and dump their loads next to each other because no one wants to process the recycling. They hope to find a new processor, and have been saying that for years now, but in the meantime, we all keep sorting our garbage/recycle, and it continues to get dumped at the same place.
This guy is doing great work and I hope he's as successful as he can be. My question is, how does plastic from landfills eventually find its way into the ocean? That seems non plausible but if in fact it's true then that's where the focus needs to be. Stop it at the source and you solve a very large portion of the problem.
In EU plastic plates, glasses, strwas and cutlery are forbidden since 2021. In my city (Northern Italy) we have waste sorting in the range of 94-96%.
Amazing work everyone involved. You should be so proud of yourselves.
I can't wait for the sequel. Bad at facts 2- the reunfactioning.
A sliver of hope! This problem is enormous. Thank you for the report.
TeamSeas: cleaning trash in beaches
TheOceanCleanup: cleaning the trash of the ocean
sugoma amogus:
Basically we need something that replaces plastic. Containers that can be more easily reused, recycled or otherwise reduced to ash and dust which doesn't harm the atmosphere.
A waterskin is made of leather. It holds water. And the leather itself can be used for other things if you don't need the waterskin. Nature will consume it if nothing else. Plastic does not have this advantage.
However, there is some sea bactiria that has started to feed on plastic. A result of adapting to the environment of so much plastic most likely. Perhaps the key is not just in finding other ways to contain things but in exploiting and perhaps even creating/breeding "plastic eaters".
The eggheads can handle the plastic eating bacteria. What could we use/make to contain things other then plastic?
1.6km squared is roughly a square mile… how TF is that “2 Texas’s” ???!!!
It's 1.6 million. He said it wrong
Over 20% of this comes from the big rivers in Asian.
At least someone is trying to clean it.
Most of people in comments section complain when they dump batteries and plastic themselves. I personally worked in recycling picking rubbish with my hands for 6 months. We cleared 8400 000 kg of rubbish.
Wow that's Amazing compassion and dedication so much respect for these guys
What would happen if governments simply brought in laws that said that all packaging must be recyclable? The problem at the moment is that non recyclable is cheaper. But if by law the packaging is recyclable the companies are all on a level playing field.
Most packaging already is recyclable. The problem is that they never get recycled :D
You can't infinitely recycle most materials. There needs to be the addition of new material somewhere down the line to maintain structural integrity of the material. Even if the material itself is recyclable you still run into the issue that the materials intended use can cause it to become non-recyclable. It doesn't just come down to cheapness, it comes down to practicality as well.
@@michaeldaigle7207 I think your pessimism is unfounded. Sure things can be recycled a lot and should be. We might have to organise ourselves slightly differently. But it does start with a can do attitude.
@@johugra1 I'm not saying its impossible to use renewable energy and materials. I'm saying that mandating it the way you suggested isn't feasible with current materials/technology. Money plays a role of course, but there are other limiting factors such as what i mentioned in my original reply.
@@michaeldaigle7207 I don't agree. If mandated ways would be found. OK give them a year or two to get organised I accept that would be necessary.
I am inspired by the men and woman and mostly the man behind to entire project. I think to myself what in the world has motivated this young man to devote his life to this point to do such a beautiful work. I can only hope for all our benefit that he continues to find this work to be a burning desire of his and pray others take up the cause and work to clean up the mess we have made. I think we need advocates of clean oceans to move now against the manufactures to come up with better container choices. yes we can develop containers that do not last thousands of years to decay and plastic that our precious animals eat because they think they are food. We need to shame those manufactures and call them out as to their lazy business models that entitle them to choose a bad container over a better one. Great work you are doing and God bless you and all your people
Aluminium , glass, steal, paper/cardboard, wood - can be recycled. stop using plastics (one use NEVER again)
@@brandoYT our medical facilities rely enormously on plastic including single use plastic. Get rid of plastic, and we get rid of our medical offices and of our hospitals
You are easily inspired Steven. The young fella is a BS Artist. Do a Google Alert
@@jglammi Medical waste is only a small percent of plastic waste. Majority of it still comes from millions of average consumers.
Probably money, like everyone else. He's only human, after all.
EXCELLENT Works clean up plastic items over the Oceans. Why the ocean cleans up company not come to our Australia Pacific Qcean ASAP.
Australia Government should add 5% to 10% plastic tax all items.
Imagine your a fish just swimming around and all of a sudden a literal title wave of garbage traps you and throws you in a compactor.
Please explain how landfill waste "eventually ends up in rivers seas and oceans".
I think that is factually incorrect, however in many parts of the world and even in the USA, open pit, so called "dumps" still exist. These are sites that aren't burying the trash under earthen material. Wind and storm events, move the trash out and about, blowing it into waterways. Is my opinion.
Rain, Floods, people in all countries throwing their trash in waterways.
Do you want facts or this dude named Dave's opinion? He only just now made it up, so it's basically science.
@@bryanbrady877 So you don't believe me?..it is a fact, even in the USA,...unorganized dump sites, ones which aren't owned or maintained by a municipality, ones that sprout up in rural areas or impoverished areas, where people just start throwing their trash in an open area, or a natural land depression, or like a valley. ( Or a holler) A shallow ravine. Are subject to having the trash be blown all about, carried by wind storms, out to waterways, like lakes and the oceans as well. Many places in Appalachia,..within Southern Ohio,....vast areas of rural lands, not owned or developed are where poor people, dump their trash,...broken cars, construction debris, old furniture and consumer goods packaging and general trash.
@@Davett53 you shall be using your current ifone until the end of time of course. You understand nothing. You are a doomed species. Virtue signaling will not help you in hell.
In our city plastic recycle cans were issued so people could separate the plastic waste from the non plastic waste. The city trash trucks would then pick up the separate cans, take everything to the dumping site and dump everything together. The city leaders felt that it was too much trouble to recycle the plastic. Cities with access to the ocean load the trash on barges and dump it off shore. As long as the people who have the power to stop the problem are lazy, corrupt and don't feel they have to answer to the people they harm, this will not stop.
david
What is the name of this city?
I see a few people suggesting to put traps at the mouth of rivers in Asia, here's what I have to say to that. The river solution is simply not a viable idea. Imagine for a moment you place a net at the mouths of the Ganges or Citarum Rivers. That sounds like a good idea, right? But then think of the logistics of that. So much trash flows through these rivers each day, that a massive pile would begin to form at the mouth of the river, this could disrupt the flow and possibly cause massive floodings. Changing and cleaning the nets is not viable either. It would have to happen very often in terms of governmental issues and is not economically viable. This would also just cause more issues. Not to mention the millions that you would anger by disrupting the Ganges, a very important religious site to tens of millions of Indians. Another idea you might have is possibly placing a plant at the mouth of the rivers. We simply don't have the technology to do that yet, and it would be massively expensive. The cost of sorting alone might reach into the billions, something that most economies won't benefit from for decades or centuries. Summary: Sorry doesn't work, too many issues.
Perhaps governments should restrict the production of plastics! When I was young, we used glass bottles that were returned for deposits and recycling. Did WE ask for plastic bottles? No, corporations seeking profits did this and continue to do this.
Since when is 1.62 sq. KM like 2 Texas states? Most shopping malls are larger.
Thanks At least I'm not the only one who noticed that 1.6KM2 is nowhere NEAR an entire state let alone two.... I think he may have meant 1.62K/KM2
They said it wrong. It's 1.6 MILLION sq KM
The real problem is overproduction though... we don't need that much throwaway packaging, and the fact that manufacturing companies produce and sell so much of it, and supermarkets and food outlets use it to package and serve food, is the real problem.
Larger fish that gets stuck in net: 👁️🙏👁️
the problem is not only the patch, but also where all this plastic is coming from, mostly rivers, there are also systems to catch the plastic before it goes to oceans, because if you dont tackle the rivers as weel it would be like tryng to emty a cup that is constantly getting filled up
Whatever your views are of this sort of thing, at least they are trying and doing a great job. You have to start somewhere. Well done to everyone involved and keep up the good work.
The stuff that will cause the most harm is generally laying on the first thermocline. Already broken down to tiny particles. One more set of trawl nets, and who looks out for the sealife? Turtles might dive right into that net. And yes, it isn't all trash from the first-world countries.
At least the ocean is nice enough to pile it all in one spot for us.
The fact that the garbage is collecting in one spot is a good thing.
I really hope the ocean is cleared up all those plastic and trash .
They should just take all the plastic from the ocean and nature, grind it into pieces and mix it with asphalt for the roads or concrete for houses.
I mean the plastic is out there anyway, at least this way it would be not useless and it would serve the purpose. We already have minced vehicle tyres in asphalt so why just not add plastic aswell?
One thing I have wrong with this video is the blame on regular people, for things like the pacific garbage patch, the main thing that contributes to things like the pacific garbage patch is large companies either directly polluting, or making their packaging have more plastics to cut costs, not making reusable containers for items, and much more. this also goes for things like greenhouse gas emissions, and other forms of waste or pollution.
Please a round of applause for the ocean clean up
Well said, and until the source is stopped, that light at the end of the tunnel will continue to get further and further away. For all concerned a deposit value needs to be attached to all plastics at point of manufacture giving the collectors a return on collecting this dangerous material. We have thousands of fishing boats doing nothing much. Paying them for example will bring that tunnel light closer, quicker. The divers could hit that submerged layer all getting paid on the tonne. This is red alert on the bridge time.
LOL oh please. The places that would have a deposit value on plastic, aren’t even the ones dumping the trash. Literally 95% of the trash comes from 10 rivers, where they literally dump them into.
Love to see these uplifting videos. Makes me believe there is hope for our planet. Great to see such a young guy doing so much for all of us. Keep up the good work, guys.
"If you think we can’t change the world, It just means you're not one of those that will." - Jacque Fresco (1916-2017)
**plastic exist**
Ocean: why do i hear boss music?
In the voice of David Attenborough,
"After traveling millions of miles the ocean is where plastic makes it forever home..."
The GPGP was 1.6 MILLION square km ... alittle typo/verbal error on part of the creator
Great work and innovation! This is misleading because plastics deposited in landfills rarely make it to the ocean. Indonesia and Asia area major source of ocean plastic as they often dump trash directly into the ocean.
To everyone talking about river pollution and stopping the plastic at the source, ocean cleanup has developed the interceptor. You can find it on RUclips. So donations to ocean cleanup isn’t just cleaning up the ocean, but stopping plastic from reaching the oceans.
One of the best things we can do to combat pollution is to focus more on environmentally safe product packaging, water bottles, masks, ppe, vaccine vials, syringes, etc...
Also, most the pollution comes from China and India. We must work with them to reduce their waste as well.
12/01/2122 The Ocean Cleanup mob have also developed a "device" which picks up rubbish flowing down rivers to the sea. Last time I heard they had two or three of these machines placed at relevant rivers in the third world on a trial basis.
The ideas which have come about via this organisation are great. I often wonder why our national governments haven't come on board to bolster the great work which they are doing. I am sure that most navies have some sort of vessel whch would envigourate this work: barges, landing craft etc.
in my opinion its a good thing that goverments arent involved in this project... people would just politicize the whole thing and everything would go to a screeching halt.
Can’t believe that will happen a century from now… such a long time
A comment from the future. Nice
Interesting video...I applaud the company's effort to tackle such a monumental problem, I only question their explanation of its cause. I have no doubt that a fair amount of the trash in our ocean's was dumped there by man...and not to offer any "What about-isms", but what about the massive amounts of trash and debris deposited in oceans from natural disasters like tsunami's, cyclones, typhoon's and hurricanes? Pull up any of the actual footage of the 2011 Tsunami's that struck the Indian Ocean and travelled around the world, and you'll see ton's and ton's of debris dragged out to sea when the waves finally subsided.
So your point is "it's not my fault"? Reuse, reduce, recycle...especially reduce. We can each make a difference if we want to.
@@stevehammond7485 That's NOT my point at all! As I stated, I actually applaud what they're trying to do...my only issue is that they attributed the problem to just one thing and, truth be told, there are many things that contribute to the problem.
@@talyn5304 it's all a matter of proportion... a tsunami destroying huge areas of coastline is still "nothing" to ~2/3 of the world population using rivers as garbage disposals day in, day out for decades
filtering rivers, reducing plastic waste and cleaning up the garbage patch itself are sensible solutions that are actually realistic
making southasian coastlines tsunami proof would be nice but it will never be completely safe and neither would it be financially possible
@@brohvakiindova4452 See...that's where the disagreement begins. I do not think two thirds of the worlds population use ocean's, rivers, lakes and streams as garbage disposals...but that's a discussion for another day. Ultimately, how it got there is irrelevant. If there are companies and/or organizations that are keen to clean it up...great!!
@@talyn5304 yes ok 2/3 is vastly exaggerated, it's still evidently enough to make the garbage patch grow steadily without major tsunamis
Well it's not that irrelevant because to really fix a problem it's not good enough to just fix the end result.
just think of it like cleaning cooking pots, if you rinse it with water while you have leftovers still inside it's going to get messy, better to dispose them first and even better to eat up everything in the first place.
Good thing on which steps along the way you can make effective efforts.
Ah yes, France. The 533m² country.
We didn't have that problem until plastic replaced paper, and glass. Ever seen a floating glass anything problem? Paper bio-degrades quickly, or can be recycled easily, and glass is either recycled/reused or will invariably recycle itself.
We need more of this around the world
Especially here in Texas, which is half of 1.6 sq km. Imagine all the money we could save if we stopped hauling all the stuff from our landfills all the way to India and dumping it in rivers. Imagine all the people living life with brains...You may say I'm a dreamer...
I think you have a major typo at 1:05/6.02. GPGP has an area of 1.6 square kilometers..(by the way,Texas has about 6.9 hundred tousands of square km not 1.6km2 !!!!!)
"Hundred thousand"
@@imagonnacrash9736 Haha...thank you for your post. I fell pretty embarrassed trying to correct someone's mistake and make mistake in my correction....Feel like smart ass now... :-)
No matter how many attempts we make to try and keep our environment clean there will always be someone doing the exact opposite so we gotta just keep trying.
"If you think we can’t change the world, It just means you're not one of those that will." - Jacque Fresco (1916-2017)
Too complicated and slow with nets. Nets cat fish, mammals and birds along with the plastic. Deploying and retrieving the nets takes time and rough water makes them less efficient.
Use the farm wheat harvester as a idea model. Mount harvesting mechanism on both sides of the ship and across the front. As the ship moves through the patch, the plastic is lifted from the harvesting mechanisms and moved by conveyor belts to a central shredder. The shedder feeds into a compactor the forms the shredded material into cubes and moves them to storage containers.
During the day, have several ships like this move together through the patch in an echelon formation with a slight overlap (think lawnmowers overlapping to get all the grass). At night, an accompanying mother ship takes on the storage containers from each ship and replaces them with empties for the next days run.
The collection units are modular and can be raised and stored onboard when not in use. Much of the unit’s structure could be made from plastic to reduce weight as the harvested debris is very light. Keeping the weight down will help with fuel efficiency and operating costs.
Not many live animals in the middle of that mess. It's also too far off shore to be full of marine life or mammals. It's REALLY remote.
That's exactly what I imagined it would take to make a dent in the mess. Now to go to the source of the problems worldwide and educate people about the same. Look at places in India for instance, garbage is everywhere you look. And some neighborhoods around in the good ole USA. The mountains around here have dumps everywhere and the creeks when they run push heaps of plastic into the lake. If you dive around here the bottom is covered in sunken plastic bags and other stuff.
My plan B in life is to have a career in these ocean clean up companies. Spend weeks at a time on the open ocean for the ultimate cause.. bliss
I lived in Mazatlan Mexico back in the early 2000s. Every morning the store keepers would take their garbage out to the docks and dump it into the ocean.
The responsibility is not with the end user, it's with all the companies that package their goods in plastic! Re-useable packaging and biodegradable packaging is the cure for this problem.
Space is also getting a bit crowded from trash. Though up there it's way more dangerous to deal with, expensive to clean up, and more difficult to prevent. If nothing is done about it though, it could definitely evolve into a much bigger problem than it is today, on par with the trash in the oceans.
Like in the movie wall-e where the earth is surrounded by trash
You have no idea how much this new developpement give me a bit of hope.
If they want us to stop using plastic, then there should be a way to stop plastic productions from factories and companies enabling them as there are products and materials that are significantly better than plastic. That's how you solve an issue by its source.
Why not just using the same technology at the source, river sources Dumping into the oceans for every country.
Because many countries simply don’t care. That’s why all this plastics gets into the rivers first place. For the people in those countries the rivers are their landfills.
That might be a goal, once the system and technology is better. The reason it works so well out where they are using it, is because out there, most of the sea life is already dead. If you use their current harvesting methods too close to currently active sea ecologies, those ecological areas would become destroyed, and much of the world would begin to starve, alas.
You might want to have a conversation with India, China and other ignorant nations. We also need to go back to glass containers.
Fungi containers
Glass, while heavier, costlier, and less flexible, is much more recyclable, as well. It also tends, by being non-porous, to be more food-safe and sterilizable. It is a good idea.
@@james3876 alas, there are a lot of folks allergic to fungi, and therefore those containers would be poison to them. Just like there are people allergic to corn, who are having issue with the “biodegradable disposable plastic-like” material made from corn. Imagine eating with a fork and going into anaphylaxis because someone didn’t bother to announce they moved from actual plastic to a corn-based substitute? It happened to a friend of mine.
@@nela9994 : 100% it’s way better than plastic. I think packing is in a long list of health issues we have.
The advances made in cleaning up the great pacific garbage patch and other polluted regions of our oceans is a win,,win, for every-body . However, without getting too far ahead of my-self; It is the micro-plastics which is getting into the systems of all living organisms and moving up the food chain, is my greatest concern . I must say, we owe the scientists and engineers involved in the world wide clean-up operation of our oceans a ton of gratitude . L"m sure i"m not alone, in thinking of the critical role, that the recently invented nano-bots could play in the filtering of micro-plastics from our oceans .
What can I do to help reduce/collect waste within my community? I live in a small town in Vietnam and notice people dumping trash at a nearby beach which could be so much more beautiful if it wasn't plagued with trash. The locals as well as local authorities doesn't seem to care much about the issue because it's normal to them, but I really want to help clean up the beach and make it a better place for the locals. I've considered paying the locals kids out of my own pocket to help clean up, but wasn't sure if it was a good long term solution.
Boyan proving what it takes to be a real person. A person who cars beyond measure and sacrifices one's own life to dedicate it to a cleaner litter free world.
Boyan proving that he can invest BIG money into making a little impact. It's like trying to put out an inferno with a thimbleful of water at a time. Until poor countries actually STOP throwing their trash into rivers by the ton... there will be no progress. It makes me cry when I look at the sheer hopelessness of it all.
Plastic manufacturers should be paying for all this.
Definitely need to address the issue of how plastic is used in our world as this method only addresses plastic on the surface of the ocean (relatively speaking).
I live in Vietnam and people are either dumping their rubbish into the rivers or burning it off in the streets. Disgraceful
So it goes to the landfill and covered with dirt, but then somehow it comes out of the dirt and walks to the ocean. Ya ok!. I would think that the likely source of garbage comes from the millions of vessels in the ocean, 🛳 ships, transport, fishing and others, maybe we should be looking there first.
Many countries around the world throw at least some of their garbage away in the Oceans. Especially China.
Most of the garbage floating in the ocean comes from third-world countries like china, mexico, and several African countries, which is why it's ridiculous to ban plastics in highly developed countries, because they aren't the ones polluting, and the lawless polluters don't care.
Noticed china and mexico were included as 3rd world countries, odd typification
@@james3876 my classification of China and Mexico is accurate, what is your malfunction?
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For note, that’s not the size of the garbage patch. 1.6 square kilometres is very small. It’s 1.6 million square kilometres.
The garbage patch is now a new ecosystem. Nice work killing it
Kudos to these guys actually doing something instead of annoyances like greta thunderbuns who just stomp their feet and complain.
It's disgusting what we've all done to this planet