Will This Be Our Biggest Ever River Catch?
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- Опубликовано: 16 апр 2024
- UPDATE: this was our biggest catch ever: Interceptor 006 captured 272 truckloads (1.4 million kg / 3.1 million lbs) of trash in one night: • 1.4 million kg (3.1 mi...
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Interceptor 006 captured hundreds of truckloads of trash - and counting - in just a few hours in the first flood of the year - all prevented from reaching the Caribbean Sea.
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The pressure on those barriers is astronomical... It looks like they could snap any moment. Hats off to the engineering team that designed it, holy smokes.
I was thinking the same thing, they must be holding back 100s of tons of crap
The trash is floating on the surface of the water, not suspended in midair. The only force on the cable is proportional to the minimal drag created on the bottom of the trash pule by the water flowing underneath. It’s steel cable and it’s been around for 150 yrs… not exactly cutting edge engineering
@@Jcreek201no the trash will block the flow of water you can also see it in the video when the barricade is going back further and further
The other interceptor snapped because of this problem
@@hermelnderhans I’m not disputing that. However the solution of “use a bigger steel cable” is still not exactly an engineering marvel.
I think the system as whole is an interesting and an innovative solution to a problem. The structural engineering that goes into it though is about as basic as it gets.
@@Jcreek201 The neat features are not apparent in this video (the detailed video was posted 10 months ago). In flash flood, the build up of plastic would cause most existing catchers to fail (including ones with steel piles) but reinforcing further wasn't practical. The top of this intercept will flip slightly when the load is too much to allow overflow to go pass it but still hold on to most of the plastic, which is the biggest improvement. And it's deployed in 2 layers to capture more. It's not over engineered in strength, but very practical and tailored to the problem/ failure points/ operational needs.
these videos are simultaneously uplifting and soul crushing at the same time.
More soul crushing for me... 😔
True. Why is the trash in the river in the first place? Bottles should have a significant return fee (Flaschenpfand) over there as well. And plastic bags banned.
@@alis49281 Why? Poverty.
@@Bob_Adkins Here we have poor people who collect trash bottles. 0,25 € for each. With 10 bottles you can buy ingredients for a meal or a whole bread for several days of dinner.
It might seem the opposite at first, but our system makes bottle and can collection a viable job for the poorest of the poor. Anyone can do it. Even kids treat bottles like treasure because they trade them for sweets.
So why is that not a model for the whole world? When you can't prevent trash, then at least make sure it is not thrown into nature. And money is a motivation that works.
@@alis49281 The recycling programs you enjoy in Europe and that we do, here in North America, that encourage people to collect and return plastics and aluminium/steel cans to recycling depots, isn't available in many Central American countries-particularly in Guatamala.
Even the provision of garbage collection in rural communities is lacking because there is no tax base, to speak of, to draw the funds from the community to pay for garbage removal and disposal. You can't milk and empty coconut.
I suggest you learn something of how many other countries are governed, particularly poorer countries. Not everyone on the planet enjoys the benefits of civil society. There's a reason why there are hordes of Central and South American economic refugees flocking to the U.S. border (or African/Middle-Eastern economic refugees flocking into Europe).
Can we see the clean up of this area? I applaud all of the people who have come together to help rescue our oceans and by doing so, our planet.❤
Yes
It is on their RUclips-Shorts. Hopefully they will upload a full video, but in the meantime we can see the shorts :)
Great opportunity to recommend The Ocean Cleanup for the Nobel Peace Prize for the Environment.!! 👏👏👏
While this amazing to see all the trash collected, it it still horrifying to realize how much will end up in the ocean, and this is just from one river.
I recall NOAA estimated 8 million tones a year in 2017, plus or minus 50%.
Surprisingly I am no longer able to find that NOAA page on-line, or could not the last time I looked.
this river is particularly bad just because of the location of the city dump, upstream and right next to the river (on a valley cliff but that means little with rain)
90% of ocean trash comes from just 10 rivers. 50% alone comes from the Yangtze River.
All of North America and Europe combined contribute to only 5% of ocean plastics.
The initial project was to clean the pacific patch but then seeing that that would be the equivalent of putting a band aid on the issue they came up with the river interceptors and located them in the biggest trash sources (rivers) that fill the patch in the first place, preventing the trash from getting to the ocan
A terrible indictment on us as a species.
Thank you Ocean Cleanup! I bought an old abandonned house 3 years ago, filled with trash everywhere. I spent the past 3 years doing a massive clean up of the property, and planted an organic indigenous food forest on top of it ! I'm still in the cleaning process tho, I spent the past few weeks cleaning the creek on the property, filled with trash and invasive species. I was right about to go work in the creek when you posted the video, it feels good to see you do your part on a massive scale, and I do mine on a smaller scale because ... you guys can't do it all, its too much. We gotta do our part folks! Go clean up your surrounding and plant indigenous trees Its so much fun!!!
Can you post videos of your project?
@@RipperRUclipsOfficial I was thinking about doing so, just to try to motivate people to do the same, but it would be too much time consuming. Every bit of energy is spent on working on it unfortunately. Maybe later when its done :)
Done, 30 years ago, already !
Agreed. That's awesome on you @StayPrimal and @TheOceanCleanup
good job, here have a cookie 🍪
We need an extraction video because this is both awe inspiring but also frightening.
You guys deserve the Nobel peace prize, it is super important that you get recognition for your contribution to the environment and to the global community.
Looking forward to seeing the extraction!
Exactly!
You can follow this project on their website, they have photos. "trash is removed from the Interceptor Barricade using excavators, it is weighed on-site to determine the total catch quantity and passed to local partners and waste management authorities for processing".
Pimple popping videos are more popular than this is.
So what?
Fo to their channel. There are videos of earlier extractions on this river
Our planet needs you. Heroic stuff.
Our planet needs us.
The planet will exist before and after everything you see today.
@@EternallyGod Truth, Debbie Downer!
@@EternallyGodalso not totally true, the sun will gobble the earth up. So just negativity for no reason ig
These countries could also just not dump hundreds of trucks of garbage into the water every hour as well
This is just astonishing the amount of trash in that river. Thank you for having the courage, drive, and willingness to take on what others ignored. I appreciate what you have done.
People still dump their trash in the river in those regions. They dont care.
Outstanding job. The barricade held up exceptionally.
Thank you OC! The source of this disaster is a waste dump in Guatemala City that overflows to the river. It’s just the start of the rainy season, so much much more is expected.
Until the local government doesn’t take seriously waste management, we are just going to collect amazing videos from OC.
Keep the good work!!
Too stupid to clean up their own trash Guatemala so you know they're using this water as drinking water too
Yea it seems to be coming from a direct source
Where will they take the rubbish?.... back to the dump upriver, who will probably charge them a fee for using the facility.... rinse and repeat, now they have a constant flow of money with no incentive to fix the problem.
i'm still baffled about why they put the city dump that close to the river
Oh, this wasn’t even in the US?
This is amazing to watch. Congratulations to the whole team, but especially the engineers and construction team who designed and built this interceptor. It is so clear how strong this must be to hold back so much waste. But it is so encouraging to see how much of this is NOT going into the Caribbean. Thanks to the whole team for all you have done and continue to do to protect the oceans!
You're truly heroic, thank you for caring and standing up against all odds.
What are you doing to get those people to stop dumping trash everywhere? Treating the symptom will only go so far.
I completely agree, if they continue to clean up after their people without first teaching them responsibility, this problem will not end. What do you think their reaction would be if they dumped that garbage in the community plaza in proportion to the village's population? They would be angry, yet they are the root cause of the garbage. The people need to see the accumulative results of their actions, maybe then they will stop polluting their waterways.
Everyone a part of this project deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.
yes.
A little early for that.
Peace prize? You want the put them on equal level with guys like Obama?
I think this is more of a Nobel Prize category than a Nobel Peace Prize. But I certainly agree with your sentiment 100%
Nobel peace prizes are full of shit. Every us president that "won" one is also guilty of unimaginable war crimes.
WOW! The interceptor prevented the creation of a whole new garbage patch in the sea thanks to this catch! Please show also the removal of all the garbage, it is painful to see all that plastic in the river...
Yes for every small patch those boats retrieve guzzling up boatloads (lol) of diesel, the seas receive 10 additional large patches like these yearly.
Look at the amount captured in this first flood. It far exceeds the amount captured seen in the last boat trip. And this river does this several times a year.
And then there are many more rivers doing the same.
That is primarily why the ocean cleanup is considered a joke amongst many. Why capture 10 tons if rivers spew 100s of tons of garbage into the river each year? It's a loosing battle. Now I do understand the need to develop technology to aid in the cleanup once the dumping stops, but until that time arises ..... well it's a nice way to make money I guess :)
The garbage patch is a million times the size of what you saw on this video. This is a drop in the bucket, but it is indeed the best first step - to stop dumping more in.
This is both horrifying and remarkable
Well done to the engineering team
Blessed by this project. Much support and love❤️
I cannot find the words to describe how I feel seeing this. Thank you to all that is working so hard to solve this massive problem. 🙏
Its satisfying and depressing at the same time.
I kept waiting for it to stop...terrifying this is from one river in one city
The world needs you. Thank you so much 🌍 ❤🖖
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Thank you Ocean Clean-up; determination and a measure of ingenuity go a long way.
Outstanding job Ocean Cleanup, thank you so much for protecting our most critical resource!
That's one river. There are thousands like this one. Imagine the scale of the damage!
Third world countries need to pay the bill of cleaning everything.
First world countries need to stop producing all this trash and sending it there
@@mds7569 You can't pay for it when your making $100 a month. Developed countries should clean up their own garbage instead of exporting it to places like this.
@@daviesmia that maybe some of the problem, but I believe they said in a different video that there is no standardized trash collection of the country. Plus they had built a landfill on the side of the river, so during heavy rains trash from the landfill contributes to the issue. This is the first step in a long road of fixing the core problem with a 3rd world country.
@@daviesmia Developed countries doing what??
I see indians using and throwing stuff on the roads and rivers, thailandes people too, vietnamese too, chinese people same shit, even latin america doesn't do better.
Please, stfu, we deal our own garbage alone.
Please post more videos like this, it changed my friends minds about how important this is. Visual representation of the issue and the solution.
This is not the solution. It's a stop gap to a long term solution
@@againstthegrain147yes, but that gives us much more time to fix the problem, and will bring MUCH needed awareness to the problem. That way, the people of the world will see this and take some form of action, even if it takes a bit due to the natural apathy of society.
This trash flood provided quite the stress test for us to see, your cleanup devices mean business!
This is shocking and so important! What a testament to what the idea of one young man can grow into. Thank you guys, more than I can say.
This river in Guatemala keeps giving …. Sadly! Thank you Ocean Cleanup Team 👏👏❤️
I'm so proud of every single person involved in this project! Truly heartwarming, and hopeful.
MORE of this PLEASE. so simple so effective
That is amazing. Saves an incredible amount of work for the ocean systems. Catching in the river is way easier to concentrate it and get transport resources than sparsely distributed scaps over the open ocean. Keep up the good work, people around the world are cheering for you!
This is almost unbelievable. Very inspiring to see you all doing something about the trash problem that leads to our oceans. Lets hope more places will adopt this type of system in areas that have similar problems in their rivers.
I have been seeing this kind of footage for at least 15 years now. I even saw a video clip of garbage trucks dumping their waste directly into a fast flowing river. Trust me, it's very believable and very much local corruption that makes it possible. And if history is anything to learn from, these types of systems will not be adopted for a very looooong time. I know, harsh statement, but human greed is a thing.
I love watching these. It shows that there are still people care about taking care of this planet.
I agree. Actually care about the planet with ACTION and not just words and taxes, like our Canadian politicians.
I have loved following the progress over the last couple years on this river. Absolutely amazing work! 🎉
Wow! I was afraid that barrier wasn't going to hold. I hope you show the clean up of the trash there. God bless you!
Sadly the same people are trashing the river again. They didn't learn from last year, locals and the government. If this is the biggest catch, is a good sign and a bad one. Government needs to create infrastructure for people dispose their trash and place fines in place. Also people need to learn that trashing the river is horrible and should learn better.
Thank you Ocean Cleanup for stepping in and help!
The plastic comes from thousands of "Mine doesn't matter". Animals do the same with their garbage, they drop it where ever. The problem is MANKIND'S plastic, it doesn't rot or biodegrade.
The only way we stop this is by finding an alternative to plastics and imposing hefty fines on companies who rely on single use plastics for profit.
the city dump is right up the river, _right next to the river_
terrible choices of infrastructure are the root of this river's issues, with only secondary issues of areas with no garbage service and illegal dumping (coin toss of broke or cheapskate)
@@turnergI don’t mind donating because it’s such important work, but those companies you mentioned should be forced to fund the Ocean Cleanup instead of us.
@@lessthanbrilliant3672 hence the "hefty fines for manufacturing plastics for profits"
OMG! I could not believe the barrier held!! 😱
Until the last second, I expected it to burst and succumb to the immense pressure of the ever growing ginormous trash heap. The barrier and its anchors must have been straining under the onslaught, the mass of garbage forming a near-solid, unrelenting ram, - but it HELD!!! Congratulations, The Ocean Cleanup! 👏👏👏
Thank you sir for helping to clean up other peoples messes.
It's both amazing and horrifying the amount of trash the river collects. It is also a great feat of engineering that the little dam can hold so much pressure from all that trash. Thank you for all you do for the planet.
Well done! I remember the previous version collapsed due to the immense flood water pressure but this one worked perfectly. Human ingenuity at its finest ❤
Had seen the previous one as well. Wonderful that they keep on progressively engineering, learning from past difficulties with better more effective designs each time they come across a problem.
Thank you Ocean Cleanup!!!!! So Grateful for all you are doing!!!!!!!
Thank you ocean clean up!!!
Thankful to know that someone is actually out there doing something about it!
Y'all are dialing this technology in and it's wonderful to see. I have travelled all the oceans and seas of the world on containerships and the pollution is very disheartening, so when I watch your progress I am filled with gratitude and admiration toward your efforts and I am rooting for you every step of the way.
Have you thought about a small bucket wheel excavator type extraction machine with a conveyor belt system?
Thank you for reaching out to The Ocean Cleanup - and thank you for sharing your ideas and providing us with constructive feedback. We have been receiving a lot of suggestions, and we are continuously evaluating ways to improve our operations. We will keep working hard to achieve our mission, and we appreciate your support. Stay tuned!
A passive extraction system would help eliminate some of the stress put on the barrier, at least initially, and might help prevent some loss down stream. Though i know that they have a 2nd barrier to grab whatever gets through the first.
All this piling up happened in just 90 minutes - small machines aren’t a solution.
@@turnerglast year they had a 2nd smaller barrier
@@rainertrier4987 who said it should be a "small machine"?
incredible! keep doing such good work. this along with your company in general has wanted me to start a cleanup plan for my own workplace to clean out streams. I hope to do more around here and with the community too. love ya'll!!
Totally amazing! Tysm guys! ❤
Amazing progress. Interceptor looking strong and flexible now
Unbelievable 😮 glad the interceptor worked so well
The fact that this would otherwise have ended up in the sea is just horrifying. Thank so much for your hard work Ocean Cleanup!
we need hundreds of these interceptors all over the world to save the planet. Thanks for the fantastic result!!
sad, impressive, good that you are taking action! Kudos to all involved finding a solution for this.
Not a solution!
What is happening below the boom? It looks like something is building up there as well in the eddy. Is there a second boom as well? When will the extraction begin. This looks like a huge stress and load on the boom!
There is a second boom. You can see it in video from last year, when they installed the system. The problem is that there is so much thrash that, inevitably, at some point, it starts to overflow.
To think all that was headed to our oceans!!! Bless every single one who had a hand in making this come true.
That's INSANE!! What a great job you guys are doing!!
Amazing! Thank you for healing our planet ❤❤❤
This is just a drop in the bucket..
This instill me with joy on a deep, primal level.
Very impressive engineering. Thank you for your service.
Thank you for helping! ❤
Speechless. Truly unbelievable. 😢
Pretty scary seeing the trash move up the surrounding embankment! OMG. All I was thinking was that I hoped the barricade would hold fast!
Thank you, Ocean Clean Up for
the "Interceptors " ❤
Just imagine all that crap reaching the ocean, pure madness ty Ocean Cleanup crew. Your work is so good for the planet, seeing all that crap being stopped makes me happy.
I hope they keep this type of clean up going. All over the globe they’re doing this and it’s working.
Absolutely unbelievable, that amount of trash, thrown into that river 😢. But thanks to you Ocean Cleanup, keep going on the oceans need you! ❤
You all are heroes. Thank you for doing what you do
What a well behaved doggo. Even at x20 speed he just sits around for so long watching the trash float on in. 🐕
You are absolute legends!! Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Incredible work. This really illustrates the severity of the issue.
You people are super heroes.
I'm so blown away with the sheer amount of trash that had been escaping every hour it looks like in this one river alone. What an amazing impact!
Just wow! I am so happy our planet has you all!
Incredible engineering, hats off to your team.
Soon I will have my OC hoodie to show off💪🏼 ✌🏼🇳🇱✌🏼
THAT IS INSANE! AND THAT IT HOLD?!?!?!?! Great job! Keep up the good work!
What a wonderful effort!
It is absolutely maddening how little some parts of the world treat our earth. I understand life is hard and many people on this planet are struggling just to survive but to have so little care and/or understanding of the devastation simply discarding trash has on the world is, disheartening.
Wow - that is so hard to stop watching in horrified fascination...so grateful for all that you do for the planet and for each person, country and ocean you are cleaning - thank you thank you thank you
It's smart how the debris will gather right next to that road for easier extraction I would guess. Good engineering is always so fascinating
The way that mass just keeps on growing and pushing is just crazy to see. 😮
Amazing work, we need a lot more of this.
So much respect and love for human nature gathered in such a tiny space...
It just keeps coming and coming and coming! Crazy
unbelievable, if this was you guys, amazing 🙏🏻
Thank you for your hard work.
These people are doing great work! THank you
The water on the other side of the barrier looks so much nicer without floating debris. Probably still real nasty but this is helping a lot.
Real heros ! Thanks ❤️❤️❤️
Beautiful! Thank you ❤
Looks like donating to your cause was the right choice. Thank you for the work you do.
You should add an interceptor type conveyor belt and start extraction immediately build it in the slope so you can just fill the trucks
Thank you xx
Wow What a Catch. Thankyou and Congratulations 🎉
Amazing what you guys are doing, truly amazing! The world needs more of this ❤
Amazing. I wonder how long it takes a backhoe to empty it all out?
You use a machine that has a conveyor belt continuously running. Backhoe is too slow.
@@markae0 Nope, the website shows them using excavators.
I believe they do both @@trikepilot101
A conveyor needs to be modular to fit in many environments and terrain. Most likely prone to breaking compared to excavators and isn't as readily available. Definitely can see benefits with a conveyor system, that's my first thought when seeing this massive pile was using a conveyor.
@@Navitus "readily available" WTF? it is all hand made.
Great work folks!!!
3:27 the dog is like 'come on you guys, back to work'
This just brings joy to my heart
"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."
Yes, but this is prevention, not cure. The cure has to happen upstream in the river and upstream in the human conscience.
@@timothyball3144 I think we can both agree that local residents seeing the volume of trash they are responsible for could help change their behaviors.
Another saying: "Don't let perfect be the enemy of good."
@B2Ag05 It might, but first, they need to see it, and how will they see it? By watching a RUclips video on their smartphone? There are some programs around that are teaching the youts in poor countries the hows and whys of proper disposal, but if they cannot afford to do the right thing, it's not going to be helpful.
Clean-up is important, but it also has to be acknowledged that it's not the cure, but rather, just a band-aid.
@@timothyball3144 the cure I was referring to is their ocean cleanup effort. The prevention is stopping inflows of plastic.
We can nitpick and split hairs, but my comment is just fine on its own. Your reply is fine on its own as well.
Yes, but prevention doesn’t come fast. As mentioned in an earlier video the OC people are contacting local governments and other institutions. It is just a very sluggish process, as big changes usually are. Additional to their efforts towards prevention the OC their work ethic is as long as the cause isn’t solved yet we also try to catch as much trash as they can. From the most polluted rivers that is - at least also a step ahead from trash entering the ocean forming the big garbage patches. Also prevention then, not the end of the chain.
Thanks!!!!!❤😊
thats awesome, i bought a shirt from you guys in my small way to support! love this its soo cool
Your barriers have surely evolved from the first model to hold up all that garbage. And to think that those amounts used to get washed out in to the sea is just mind boggling. And this is just one of many rivers with the same issue. The planet needs these barriers on every major river outlet!