I am going to college this year in media city in manchester and I hope once I have finished my course in TV production I will be able to work for you as a camera operator. Keep up the good work.
So insane to see how bad we as humans have treated our world . This will be so devastating for the coming future of the world . It’s sad to k ow this truth & see it in the real
Just need to remind you that you need to be extra careful in presenting your narratives. What you measure is the outcome, the trash that comes out from those rivers, but you don‘t analyze the source. Currently, countries like Malaysia becomes the world‘s trash bins, as developed countries are exporting their trash to these countries with lack of waste management infrastructure. When you are not careful, your explanation kind of imply that only people living in these countries 'create' the trash and contribute to pollution. People in landlocked countries or developed countries have no business and they will keep shifting all the blame to these countries. This will seriously harm our progress to reduce plastic pollution.
Here is a guy who could have done anything with his life. He certainly had the entrepreneurial spirit to create any startup, make and sell some great products, make some millions or billions. But no. Unlike most, he was able to focus on what matters, created a non-profit and went on to tackle not only one of the hardest problems out there, but also one of the most important. This is the kind of people we need. What a guy and what a team.
Although I fully support everyone who is trying to eliminate plastic pollution. But wouldnt the solution be if the poluting countries have more waste powerplants instead of landfills? Because once this is set in place cleaning the rivers would be more easy and could also prevent new waste entering the rivers🧐
There is no single solution to the plastic pollution problem - it's going to take working together from many different angles to solve. This is why we work with local stakeholders wherever we deploy an Interceptor to help improve local waste management. Read more here: theoceancleanup.com/updates/what-happens-to-the-extracted-river-waste/
@@abhi36292 Oh absolutely I think educating people is very important. I made my comment because I am very worried. I think alot about solutions but I always end up thinking about the rootcause which to me comes back to better waste management and missing powerplants in very poluting regions. Because only a very limited amount of plastic can be recycled and only a small part of that is worth to recycle in terms “energy” needed to recycle.
the number of red dots on malaysia peninsula is shocking. in malaysia there are still people with low eco-awareness who litter anywhere. i think education is really important
The government is doing absolutely nothing in terms of informing the public and enforcing the laws. You hear absolutely nothing about what this NGO is doing in this country in the mass media. Diam seribu bahasa.
@@mfaizsyahmi At some point anyone with internet access lacks an excuse. Not saying that's the case for Malaysia, personally don't know a single thing about their culture, but you cant blame the government for everyone when a lot of people dont care to enlighten themselves.
Malaysia doesn't surprise me at all with not giving a dam regarding environmental devastation. I have seen videos of horrific animal cruelty from this ignorant backward country.
Well it's shocking for me because I'm a Malaysian youth and I know the issue of river pollution and excessive use of plastic exist in Malaysia. I just didn't know it's this serious. Actually I haven't done any research on what government did but it can be sure that they r definitely not doing enough for enforcement. Education wise, I am trying to go zero-waste myself and I know some of my friends really care for the environment too, I think environmental education in geography, moral, and some activities like recycling competition organised by the school shape this mindset in us unknowingly. For animal cruelty, it exists in many countries, not just Malaysia, from dog meat trade, to cruel research on primates or owls, to the most common meat industry. IT IS really sad how some humans we are above other animals and have the authority to determine their life and death.
I have been following this company/story/movement/whatever ever since I saw a video about Boyan way back in 2014. I am absolutely amazed with the progress you and your team have made since then. It gives me hope. Keep going!
The Ocean Cleanup is really changing our world by not only developing the research and technology for cleaning the oceans and rivers, but also making that information available for any company interested in understanding their own relationship to river pollution.
Once this is in place, then one can start working on people's attitude to personal waste management, as well as ways to rid oneself of them. Thank you Ocean Cleanup for taking the bold and monumental step to run where the rest of us need to learn to walk.
Many thanks to the Ocean Cleanup team for taking the initiative from a global point of view! I live in the world's most populous city and essentially it has led to the emergence of world's one of the most polluted river,The Buriganga over the past 50-60 years. The government in collaboration with local and international organizations has taken a mega project to clean the river and overall development.Though the progress is visible,it will take years to get it fully done because the damage was worst. I would love to see the earth's waterways to be clean and natural and my best wishes are always with you.I am sure you will help the rivers to breath naturally worldwide. Do come to Bangladesh and see if you can contribute to its development.Take love.
Almost as surprising as the pollution, is how little views this has relative to it's importance. Thank you for dealing with this major problem that is only getting significantly worse.
@@АлексИсаев-м6ы very good point. It seems the individuals that control Nobel awards get more excited about talkers versus walkers. I am not saying Greta hasn't been a good spokesperson, but not much action on her side. Don't lose hope in everyone, I know folks including myself who purchase very little single use or just things in general unless it's for the housing we work on.
@@functionalvanconversion4284 I can tell you more on this issue of not losing hope. Here in Russia we have ridiculously low rate of recycling, and almost everyone says it's impossible to make our people sort garbage. However in my city, if you want some of your garbage to get recycled, you can once a week bring it to a collection point, which is a big van that arrives at a certain place at a certain time. You just have to bring it there sorted and, you are not paid for that, it's absolutely volunteery. It seemed to be a failure project from scratch, but who would believe so many people will be bringing their garbage making 2-3 miles even at cold Russian winter to transmitt it for free! This project is already 3 years old and keeps running. Young people, old people participate. Just amazing and pathetic.
@@АлексИсаев-м6ыThanks for sharing, so it seems that some folks care. It seems we need to reduce the supply of recycled material in general both for the economic game and to be more sustainable. I wish I could be more optimistic on this but we have traveled to many beaches and seen so much trash here in the US.
It's hard to not be infuriated by this. There is never, ever an excuse to treat the environment like your personal trash can. Too many individuals behave just as badly as any corporation. ... Thank you for the work you do. 🌍🌎🌏
Honestly its part ignorance, part lack of trash management infrastructure, part being poor, and part just how they have always done things. throwing stuff in rivers is nothing new, but now that plastic is making its way to these developing nations and to the poorest areas we see a lot of it getting into the waters.
When you're constantly worried about feeding your family, trash in the ocean is the least of your concerns. I'm not saying its an excuse, I'm just saying its the reality. Support companies like this, because governments don't give a shit.
@@brandonporter6223 but rich people like billionaires who have enough money to do anything they want give the least of shit about plastic in the ocean, especially when they're the ones who just have to take some effort to stop this problem. But no, apart from The Ocean Cleanup, they don't give any shit. Now there's no excuse for why billionaires don't do this apart from that they don't give any shit.
A lot of the issues comes from waste management - there are a lot of communities near rivers that have never seen a garbage truck in their life, and they have no option but to create landfills wherever they can, even on the river banks, and when the water level rises, it washes off the garbage into the river. I'm sure that most of these people wouldn't want to live surrounded by trash, and it's not down to individual persons to solve the problem, but the local governments (that often don't have the resources to improve waste management) as well as activist organisations and global environmental agencies. Many first-world countries have the resources to solve this waste crisis, but it is not a priority for them.
@@AleksandarStefanovic I agree with a lot of what you said but honestly there’s one group you missed that is most important to solve plastic pollution problem and that’s the companies who create products made with that resource. Lots of products could be packaged in glass or paper instead of plastic but they aren’t bc plastic is cheap oil by product…
Great work guys. It must be frustrating at times, and boy is it frustrating seeing the footage of some of these disgusting rivers, but you are absolutely doing the right things - please keep on doing what you do.
TOC: Thank you for your valiant efforts! Our household is trying to cut down plastic use (Not Easy!) and minimize landfill impact. Teach your children. Encourage your neighbors.
I hope you guys at The Ocean Cleanup haven't been hit too hard with the pandemic. What you do is so important: not just your work, but the example you set xxx
You guys are TRUE HEROES so young and full of motivation. I'm a 60 year old expatriate living in Indonesia and it breaks my heart when I see dirty natural environment and seeing people still littering. Continue your EXCELLENT research and prove it to the politicians unfortunatelly they only talk but no action taken.
So grateful for the comprehensive and serious work these wonderful people are doing. Now if we can convince the plastics manufacturers to embrace using materials that break down into non toxic elements we’ll begin to end this nightmare.
4:39 I really feel sad and hurt when i see my country(Philippines) at no.1 to be the worst of all. I have a Capstone Project in my School and i planned to develop a prototype just like WasteShark and other Ocean trash Cleaner Technology that can solve this Kind of Problem. I hope i can help to save our marine lives and beautiful beaches.
I live on the Philippines, and invented a river trash boom from used tires and bottles. They work great and collect more trash for the money than anything this non profit but makes profits company does.
You also shouldn't say you can recycle it and then just dump it. The country is being paid for a service of recycling then not doing it and contaminating themselves.
The current government of India is working very much on making India's rivers clean. One of them is namami gange river. It has already reduced the pollution by over 35%.
This was a bit hard to wach and realise how big a problem this is but brilliant World Wide studie of where the plastic polution mostly needs attention.. Great/Grand work from all you deligthful people att the Ocean Cleanup program.. The World was blessed the day Boyan Slant was born.. I send my best thank's and wishes to his parents that raised him rigth.. Thank you kindly from my heart..❤ Be safe all of you beautiful souls we all love your amazing work
Hello! Please make same map with numbers of how many trash been captured by interceptors. May be online. And interesting to see live stream from interceptors. I think it will help to rise more money for project because it will make it more real for people. And please add more video reports of existing interceptors how it is doing.
Hey guys, put ads on your videos. I'm willing to disable my ad blocker to support you. I know that isn't that much but I wanted to help you in any way I can. Thank you for your projects!
The first initiative with the courage to realise this simple reality, sometimes you have to go to someone else's back yard in order to clean up the world.
This is a good information making more clear where is the knot of this trouble. The waste comes from poor riverside villages, than thanks if they have something to eat and totally improbable that they dispose of strong garbage bags, then the waste is simply thrown anywhere and with strong winds or strong rains that are frequent in this places, all this waste have easily access to the rivers. Big Problem!!!. Or their governments they distribute strong bags to the people and pick up this from a boat, together with a new way in a markets for to buy like I was saying the other day, or this not is near of ending. Maybe some fundation or organization can to donate strong bags for this villages, and for other side in the world there are so much old boats that maybe not can to be used for your main destiny and can be used for this normal garbage collection. This is a great work relocating things. But for the moment fantastic work in this info you have done Boyan!!✌️✌️👌✌️✌️ ___________________ Sorry, bacause I am saying that any fundation can to donate, but yourself can to manufacture strong bags with the plastic you is recycling on the Pacific Ocean area. Maybe you is doing, I don't know!...✌️
You are an amazing human being. What an effort! What great data you are collecting that can be used for multiple reasons, not just your plastic clean up. Very inspiring and creating hope for humanity everyday. Thank you. Thank you to your team. Godspeed.
Hopefully there will be lots of these filterinstallations implemented everywhere, beginning with most polluted areas, but we must not forget about the platsic that sinks and the amount of micro plastic that is already in the seawater and animals, who knows some device can start filtering this some day. Big Up!
I’d love it if you considered Rivers that are maybe not so heavy in pollution (ex. Hudson River In NY) and consider locations such as this to launch interceptors to advertise your movement in communities that, I hate to say it, have money and share your passion to clean our oceans and rivers. I have been to Green Events on the Hudson River and had the chance to meet passionate people deeply concerned with your mission. The idea to launch an interceptor in Rivers that connect cities and states and view them as crowd funding opportunities not only from the local government but also from the people that live there that have higher incomes to donate to this cause. The idea to uses a few interceptors as a way to market and grow public awareness in wealthier communities could hold great potential in helping you exceed your $500k goal. Which could drastically help fund more advancements to engineer larger scaled models to launch in the Ocean Cleanup for the garbage patches. Sorry It’s late here but I thought I should share this to someone on your team. I love what you all are doing.
Thank you so much for doing this work! Your research and educated approach to solve this global problem is so impressive! I’ll being purchasing my sunglasses very soon...
I did a few papers on boyan in college. I went into such a rabbit hole that I was in a bad place mentally. I felt powerless. This was in 2016 however, and seeing what he does now, holy shit man, I'm so proud of you. I've been following since the tedtalks and I would love to clean up the Willamette river in Oregon with your help. That would be so amazing.
SpaceX is about to launch Spaceship SN15. If sources are correct - the fuel for each launch costs more than an Interceptor. You have my support and I looking forward to the delivery of a pair of your sunglasses. It would be great if people that prepare to leave this planet would invest in more Interceptors to save the One we have.
There is no reason these goals aren’t intertwined. Environmentalism and the space industry may seem like conflicting goals based on where they came from, but they can fit together nicely. Many of the satellites used today to study weather, carbon emissions, and Sahara dust blows to the Amazon are only possible due to the space industry’s newer launch vehicles. Space can continue to grow for the environmental movement too - it is possible to produce baseline solar power that are beamed to collectors on the ground (aka space-based solar power), and the movement of our heavy industry off-world would save much of the environmental degradation metal mining produces today. Not to mention secondary effects on sustainability - hydroponic research, water reclamation technologies, and air filtration tech are all byproducts of space research. So, there is synthesis between the fields. I do wish this got more press, and TOC is making the problem of plastic pollution “sexy” for our media culture, the same way Musk did with space launch costs. It’ll get there. 😊
Why attack space exploration? An ark to save and advance humanity if we are hit by a massive asteroid. A better example of wasted money could be "Kim Kardashian's wedding expenses could have covered 147 interceptors".
Dear Mr. Slat, Congratulations on this excellent research presentation! It strongly reminds me of listening to Environmental Health lectures back in graduate school at the UMASS SPHHS. You referred to the Next Steps derived from these data -putting more Interceptors into more rivers. There remains one linking step between these data and the intervention; namely applying a Quality of Ocean Plastics Pollution Prevention Measurement Scale. Your organization needs to develop a QOPPPMS soon! Pls keep in mind that measurement scale development is a scientific subspecialty endeavour about equivalent in seriousness to biostatistical data modelling in Silicon Valley. Will brainstorm the possible factors of the QOPPPMS, version 1.0 in next comments. Best Regards, A.G. L.
So glad to see of a great technology or green energy. Thank you so much for your help! and your technology to save the environment and our ocean. We need to have the positive person like you in the world 👍💪🙏🙏🙏
Cleaning up rivers and the oceans is a great goal, but unless you change the perception of industry owners it will never end. For businesses all over the world it comes down to one thing, saving a buck. Its cheaper to simply dump your garbage than to have it processed to be recycled. To change this things need to change.
The problem is that some places do not have organized trash collection and we all have more stuff that turns to garbage. I have visited a small town in S Mexico for a number of years, In the beginning, people burned all their trash in open burn piles or roadside dumping. Now they have free weekly garbage pickup and a central landfill. Roadside trash dropped 95%
Thanks a lot for picking up after us...you do a great work..I do go to the beach once a week and I try to pick up whatever I see and put them in the trash cans...the work you are doing is really amazing..:)
Afraid developing plastic alternatives is out of our scope - we'll stick to cleaning it up! Hopefully there are researchers hard at work developing those alternatives.
Dont think its exactly what it says on the tin but.... hats off to anyone who is tackling this problem from your DALLMYD to your Boyan Slat. Your all heroes I'm my eyes, the plastic problem is the BIGGEST problem the planet faces. Thankyou.
Hi. Thank you for doing this kind work. It is really sad to see my country is one of the biggest to contribute to the plastic waste. As much as it can be said, people are very hard to gain awareness about river pollution.
Thank you! This is the sort of thing I would love to hear about our children learning in public schools... this learning, transforming our world via their creative problem solving. :)
Im just a trader I will be donating money to help with this cause that I feel passion about. Keeps up the fight we are all supporting you. GME profit will go to help with the cause.
As a ocean fisher man and loves the beach I praise all your work I love it so much I have a salt water aquarium for 20 yr. oh yea I bought bracelets frame them two guys on t.v. Commercial saving the oceans of trash are you the same people?
It can't be healthy for the people or the animals to have the rivers they live near to be so polluted either. What an awesome job you all are doing working towards cleaning them all up.
India's Yamuna River had turned into public drain .Please take a look at Yamuna and also Ganga river of India 🇮🇳 ....You all are amazing people , and your success will be ours .I hope in future when We grow up we all be the part of your community .🤞🌼 Huge clap 👏 for these amazing people ...🫂
I applaud this plastic waste intervention. From the data we can see how individual country contributes to this pollution, be it being having more river systems and demographic distribution along the river banks but also how the country manages waste itself. Lack of drinkable tapped water also increases the use of plastic bottles dramatically. Like carbon emission, use of plastic bags and bottles must be regulated! Last but not least, investments into portable tap water must be made!
Explore the interactive map of 1000 most polluting rivers around the world here: theoceancleanup.com/sources/
I am going to college this year in media city in manchester and I hope once I have finished my course in TV production I will be able to work for you as a camera operator. Keep up the good work.
So insane to see how bad we as humans have treated our world . This will be so devastating for the coming future of the world . It’s sad to k ow this truth & see it in the real
Hey! How many water systems do you have operating in 2021?
Keep going guys im with u let's protect the earth's wildlife
Just need to remind you that you need to be extra careful in presenting your narratives. What you measure is the outcome, the trash that comes out from those rivers, but you don‘t analyze the source. Currently, countries like Malaysia becomes the world‘s trash bins, as developed countries are exporting their trash to these countries with lack of waste management infrastructure. When you are not careful, your explanation kind of imply that only people living in these countries 'create' the trash and contribute to pollution. People in landlocked countries or developed countries have no business and they will keep shifting all the blame to these countries. This will seriously harm our progress to reduce plastic pollution.
Here is a guy who could have done anything with his life. He certainly had the entrepreneurial spirit to create any startup, make and sell some great products, make some millions or billions. But no. Unlike most, he was able to focus on what matters, created a non-profit and went on to tackle not only one of the hardest problems out there, but also one of the most important. This is the kind of people we need. What a guy and what a team.
Although I fully support everyone who is trying to eliminate plastic pollution. But wouldnt the solution be if the poluting countries have more waste powerplants instead of landfills? Because once this is set in place cleaning the rivers would be more easy and could also prevent new waste entering the rivers🧐
@@zzzm1k3zzz still ,people need to know how we are poisoning the planet and there are people who still care and look after it
hes another scammer.. 3 prototypes thats it
There is no single solution to the plastic pollution problem - it's going to take working together from many different angles to solve. This is why we work with local stakeholders wherever we deploy an Interceptor to help improve local waste management. Read more here: theoceancleanup.com/updates/what-happens-to-the-extracted-river-waste/
@@abhi36292 Oh absolutely I think educating people is very important. I made my comment because I am very worried. I think alot about solutions but I always end up thinking about the rootcause which to me comes back to better waste management and missing powerplants in very poluting regions. Because only a very limited amount of plastic can be recycled and only a small part of that is worth to recycle in terms “energy” needed to recycle.
I love what you do and am so impressed by your research. Thank you for trying to save our oceans and rivers.
Not trying... They are doing it.
@@Nicolas_L. You are right! They are absolutely doing it!
what research are they doing exactly?
@@MonkeySpecs301 They are researching pollution in rivers.
You can read more detail about it here: theoceancleanup.com/updates/in-search-of-the-rivers-that-carry-plastic-into-the-ocean/
the number of red dots on malaysia peninsula is shocking. in malaysia there are still people with low eco-awareness who litter anywhere. i think education is really important
The government is doing absolutely nothing in terms of informing the public and enforcing the laws. You hear absolutely nothing about what this NGO is doing in this country in the mass media. Diam seribu bahasa.
@@mfaizsyahmi At some point anyone with internet access lacks an excuse. Not saying that's the case for Malaysia, personally don't know a single thing about their culture, but you cant blame the government for everyone when a lot of people dont care to enlighten themselves.
Malaysia doesn't surprise me at all with not giving a dam regarding environmental devastation.
I have seen videos of horrific animal cruelty from this ignorant backward country.
Well it's shocking for me because I'm a Malaysian youth and I know the issue of river pollution and excessive use of plastic exist in Malaysia. I just didn't know it's this serious. Actually I haven't done any research on what government did but it can be sure that they r definitely not doing enough for enforcement. Education wise, I am trying to go zero-waste myself and I know some of my friends really care for the environment too, I think environmental education in geography, moral, and some activities like recycling competition organised by the school shape this mindset in us unknowingly. For animal cruelty, it exists in many countries, not just Malaysia, from dog meat trade, to cruel research on primates or owls, to the most common meat industry. IT IS really sad how some humans we are above other animals and have the authority to determine their life and death.
@@jeffbrownstain All governments can (and should) do something to enlighten the people.
I have been following this company/story/movement/whatever ever since I saw a video about Boyan way back in 2014. I am absolutely amazed with the progress you and your team have made since then. It gives me hope. Keep going!
Me too! I was so stoked they launched an Interceptor over in Los Angeles at the end of 2022. Capture a ton of plastic on the first be rains.
Most important Dutch project of the 21st century. Finally real environmental responsibility.
Keep up the great work. It's history in the makings.🙏
The Ocean Cleanup is really changing our world by not only developing the research and technology for cleaning the oceans and rivers, but also making that information available for any company interested in understanding their own relationship to river pollution.
Once this is in place, then one can start working on people's attitude to personal waste management, as well as ways to rid oneself of them. Thank you Ocean Cleanup for taking the bold and monumental step to run where the rest of us need to learn to walk.
Many thanks to the Ocean Cleanup team for taking the initiative from a global point of view!
I live in the world's most populous city and essentially it has led to the emergence of world's one of the most polluted river,The Buriganga over the past 50-60 years.
The government in collaboration with local and international organizations has taken a mega project to clean the river and overall development.Though the progress is visible,it will take years to get it fully done because the damage was worst.
I would love to see the earth's waterways to be clean and natural and my best wishes are always with you.I am sure you will help the rivers to breath naturally worldwide.
Do come to Bangladesh and see if you can contribute to its development.Take love.
Almost as surprising as the pollution, is how little views this has relative to it's importance. Thank you for dealing with this major problem that is only getting significantly worse.
I lost my last hope in humanity when learned that Greta Tunberg, not Boyan Slat was nominated to Noebel Prize
@@АлексИсаев-м6ы very good point. It seems the individuals that control Nobel awards get more excited about talkers versus walkers. I am not saying Greta hasn't been a good spokesperson, but not much action on her side. Don't lose hope in everyone, I know folks including myself who purchase very little single use or just things in general unless it's for the housing we work on.
@@functionalvanconversion4284 I can tell you more on this issue of not losing hope. Here in Russia we have ridiculously low rate of recycling, and almost everyone says it's impossible to make our people sort garbage. However in my city, if you want some of your garbage to get recycled, you can once a week bring it to a collection point, which is a big van that arrives at a certain place at a certain time. You just have to bring it there sorted and, you are not paid for that, it's absolutely volunteery. It seemed to be a failure project from scratch, but who would believe so many people will be bringing their garbage making 2-3 miles even at cold Russian winter to transmitt it for free! This project is already 3 years old and keeps running. Young people, old people participate. Just amazing and pathetic.
@@АлексИсаев-м6ыThanks for sharing, so it seems that some folks care. It seems we need to reduce the supply of recycled material in general both for the economic game and to be more sustainable. I wish I could be more optimistic on this but we have traveled to many beaches and seen so much trash here in the US.
@@АлексИсаев-м6ы Ahmmmmmmm 😌😏
It's hard to not be infuriated by this. There is never, ever an excuse to treat the environment like your personal trash can. Too many individuals behave just as badly as any corporation. ... Thank you for the work you do. 🌍🌎🌏
Honestly its part ignorance, part lack of trash management infrastructure, part being poor, and part just how they have always done things. throwing stuff in rivers is nothing new, but now that plastic is making its way to these developing nations and to the poorest areas we see a lot of it getting into the waters.
When you're constantly worried about feeding your family, trash in the ocean is the least of your concerns. I'm not saying its an excuse, I'm just saying its the reality. Support companies like this, because governments don't give a shit.
@@brandonporter6223 but rich people like billionaires who have enough money to do anything they want give the least of shit about plastic in the ocean, especially when they're the ones who just have to take some effort to stop this problem. But no, apart from The Ocean Cleanup, they don't give any shit. Now there's no excuse for why billionaires don't do this apart from that they don't give any shit.
A lot of the issues comes from waste management - there are a lot of communities near rivers that have never seen a garbage truck in their life, and they have no option but to create landfills wherever they can, even on the river banks, and when the water level rises, it washes off the garbage into the river. I'm sure that most of these people wouldn't want to live surrounded by trash, and it's not down to individual persons to solve the problem, but the local governments (that often don't have the resources to improve waste management) as well as activist organisations and global environmental agencies. Many first-world countries have the resources to solve this waste crisis, but it is not a priority for them.
@@AleksandarStefanovic I agree with a lot of what you said but honestly there’s one group you missed that is most important to solve plastic pollution problem and that’s the companies who create products made with that resource. Lots of products could be packaged in glass or paper instead of plastic but they aren’t bc plastic is cheap oil by product…
Great work guys. It must be frustrating at times, and boy is it frustrating seeing the footage of some of these disgusting rivers, but you are absolutely doing the right things - please keep on doing what you do.
TOC: Thank you for your valiant efforts! Our household is trying to cut down plastic use (Not Easy!) and minimize landfill impact. Teach your children. Encourage your neighbors.
I hope you guys at The Ocean Cleanup haven't been hit too hard with the pandemic.
What you do is so important: not just your work, but the example you set xxx
You guys are TRUE HEROES so young and full of motivation. I'm a 60 year old expatriate living in Indonesia and it breaks my heart when I see dirty natural environment and seeing people still littering. Continue your EXCELLENT research and prove it to the politicians unfortunatelly they only talk but no action taken.
So grateful for the comprehensive and serious work these wonderful people are doing. Now if we can convince the plastics manufacturers to embrace using materials that break down into non toxic elements we’ll begin to end this nightmare.
Thank you for your mission, and setting an example to the rest of the world to CLEAN OUR ACT UP!
Massive respect to you and your team. Thank you for saving our ocean.
4:39 I really feel sad and hurt when i see my country(Philippines) at no.1 to be the worst of all.
I have a Capstone Project in my School and i planned to develop a prototype just like WasteShark and other Ocean trash Cleaner Technology that can solve this Kind of Problem. I hope i can help to save our marine lives and beautiful beaches.
Good luck! 👍
I live on the Philippines, and invented a river trash boom from used tires and bottles. They work great and collect more trash for the money than anything this non profit but makes profits company does.
We should'nt accept trash from other countries declared as recyclable waste.
It is going to be down to people like you (and me) to do something about this...
You also shouldn't say you can recycle it and then just dump it. The country is being paid for a service of recycling then not doing it and contaminating themselves.
Big salut to ocean clean up for your team work...excellent work..
Incredible work. ❤️
You and your team are amazing! Companies and teams like this is the future!
The current government of India is working very much on making India's rivers clean. One of them is namami gange river. It has already reduced the pollution by over 35%.
This was a bit hard to wach and realise how big a problem this is but brilliant World Wide studie of where the plastic polution mostly needs attention.. Great/Grand work from all you deligthful people att the Ocean Cleanup program.. The World was blessed the day Boyan Slant was born.. I send my best thank's and wishes to his parents that raised him rigth.. Thank you kindly from my heart..❤ Be safe all of you beautiful souls we all love your amazing work
Depressing and beautiful at the same time. Thanks! 🌎
Hello! Please make same map with numbers of how many trash been captured by interceptors. May be online. And interesting to see live stream from interceptors. I think it will help to rise more money for project because it will make it more real for people. And please add more video reports of existing interceptors how it is doing.
The work that went into compiling this research is amazing.
Hey guys, put ads on your videos. I'm willing to disable my ad blocker to support you. I know that isn't that much but I wanted to help you in any way I can. Thank you for your projects!
THANK YOU
Please keep doing this! Thank you
This is so important! Thanks to the whole crew for working so hard and bringing this information to the world!!
Start at the source. Beginning a recycle program in these cities to stop the dumping and the clean up with be successful.
Excellent analysis!!
The first initiative with the courage to realise this simple reality, sometimes you have to go to someone else's back yard in order to clean up the world.
We are thrilled to have you in India!
Pls come soon
Good to see that you adapt to the challenges your are facing when your ideas touch the ground.
No dislikes that show us we all are with you.
Thank you so much for putting your ideas to a great use - one that benefits us all around the world!
This is a good information making more clear where is the knot of this trouble. The waste comes from poor riverside villages, than thanks if they have something to eat and totally improbable that they dispose of strong garbage bags, then the waste is simply thrown anywhere and with strong winds or strong rains that are frequent in this places, all this waste have easily access to the rivers. Big Problem!!!. Or their governments they distribute strong bags to the people and pick up this from a boat, together with a new way in a markets for to buy like I was saying the other day, or this not is near of ending. Maybe some fundation or organization can to donate strong bags for this villages, and for other side in the world there are so much old boats that maybe not can to be used for your main destiny and can be used for this normal garbage collection. This is a great work relocating things. But for the moment fantastic work in this info you have done Boyan!!✌️✌️👌✌️✌️
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Sorry, bacause I am saying that any fundation can to donate, but yourself can to manufacture strong bags with the plastic you is recycling on the Pacific Ocean area. Maybe you is doing, I don't know!...✌️
We all owe Boyan and his team a great deal of gratitude
Critics said it was impossible and a waste of time and money.
Some critize while others achieve.
Good work!
THANK YOU ❤️
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This should have 1+ million views. awesome work
Amazing work by an amazing team!
Im really inspired by the work you are doing guys!
These vídeos are good. All you do is marvelous! Thanks 🙏❤
You guys are doing amazing work.
Im not surprised that Philippines is on the top of the list. I have seen it myself. I was there for 21 yrs
You are an amazing human being. What an effort! What great data you are collecting that can be used for multiple reasons, not just your plastic clean up. Very inspiring and creating hope for humanity everyday. Thank you. Thank you to your team. Godspeed.
Hopefully there will be lots of these filterinstallations implemented everywhere, beginning with most polluted areas, but we must not forget about the platsic that sinks and the amount of micro plastic that is already in the seawater and animals, who knows some device can start filtering this some day. Big Up!
I’d love it if you considered Rivers that are maybe not so heavy in pollution (ex. Hudson River In NY) and consider locations such as this to launch interceptors to advertise your movement in communities that, I hate to say it, have money and share your passion to clean our oceans and rivers.
I have been to Green Events on the Hudson River and had the chance to meet passionate people deeply concerned with your mission.
The idea to launch an interceptor in Rivers that connect cities and states and view them as crowd funding opportunities not only from the local government but also from the people that live there that have higher incomes to donate to this cause.
The idea to uses a few interceptors as a way to market and grow public awareness in wealthier communities could hold great potential in helping you exceed your $500k goal. Which could drastically help fund more advancements to engineer larger scaled models to launch in the Ocean Cleanup for the garbage patches.
Sorry It’s late here but I thought I should share this to someone on your team.
I love what you all are doing.
This deserves more importance than the amount of importance that it already has!!
The question is : Why?
Thank you so much for doing this work! Your research and educated approach to solve this global problem is so impressive! I’ll being purchasing my sunglasses very soon...
Thank you guys for the hard work you do!
I did a few papers on boyan in college. I went into such a rabbit hole that I was in a bad place mentally. I felt powerless. This was in 2016 however, and seeing what he does now, holy shit man, I'm so proud of you. I've been following since the tedtalks and I would love to clean up the Willamette river in Oregon with your help. That would be so amazing.
You are heroes! Thank you for what you are doing. I will donate again.
Stop donation
thanks for you work
Bryan slat deserves a medal and huge recognition for what he is doing.👏👏👏
Spelling mistake at 4:37 (EMISSION instead of EISSION). Keep up the great work! Exciting stuff!
Keep up the great work !!!
Im highly thankful for what you do, keep being the change you want to see in the world.
SpaceX is about to launch Spaceship SN15. If sources are correct - the fuel for each launch costs more than an Interceptor. You have my support and I looking forward to the delivery of a pair of your sunglasses. It would be great if people that prepare to leave this planet would invest in more Interceptors to save the One we have.
Agree
There is no reason these goals aren’t intertwined. Environmentalism and the space industry may seem like conflicting goals based on where they came from, but they can fit together nicely. Many of the satellites used today to study weather, carbon emissions, and Sahara dust blows to the Amazon are only possible due to the space industry’s newer launch vehicles. Space can continue to grow for the environmental movement too - it is possible to produce baseline solar power that are beamed to collectors on the ground (aka space-based solar power), and the movement of our heavy industry off-world would save much of the environmental degradation metal mining produces today. Not to mention secondary effects on sustainability - hydroponic research, water reclamation technologies, and air filtration tech are all byproducts of space research. So, there is synthesis between the fields. I do wish this got more press, and TOC is making the problem of plastic pollution “sexy” for our media culture, the same way Musk did with space launch costs. It’ll get there. 😊
Why attack space exploration? An ark to save and advance humanity if we are hit by a massive asteroid.
A better example of wasted money could be "Kim Kardashian's wedding expenses could have covered 147 interceptors".
Amazing guys. Sending thanks and appreciation as a fellow citizen of Earth, and blessings to you and your work.
This is extremely simple, and extremely brilliant at the same time.
Dear Mr. Slat, Congratulations on this excellent research presentation! It strongly reminds me of listening to Environmental Health lectures back in graduate school at the UMASS SPHHS. You referred to the Next Steps derived from these data -putting more Interceptors into more rivers. There remains one linking step between these data and the intervention; namely applying a Quality of Ocean Plastics Pollution Prevention Measurement Scale. Your organization needs to develop a QOPPPMS soon! Pls keep in mind that measurement scale development is a scientific subspecialty endeavour about equivalent in seriousness to biostatistical data modelling in Silicon Valley. Will brainstorm the possible factors of the QOPPPMS, version 1.0 in next comments. Best Regards, A.G. L.
Im from malaysia. I wish i can work with this guys to fight global pollution. Especially in my country.
you guys have my deepest respect
Love the work you guys do. Keep up the good work, grow bigger, stronger and able to take on any situation. Stay safe guys. Keep up the great work.
So glad to see of a great technology or green energy. Thank you so much for your help! and your technology to save the environment and our ocean. We need to have the positive person like you in the world 👍💪🙏🙏🙏
🕊 Thanks, Boyan 🕊
Cleaning up rivers and the oceans is a great goal, but unless you change the perception of industry owners it will never end. For businesses all over the world it comes down to one thing, saving a buck. Its cheaper to simply dump your garbage than to have it processed to be recycled. To change this things need to change.
We (the people) should stop buying these products and put the manufacturer out of business.
Outstanding! Protecting our world requires a global (and united) vision... your nailing it!
The problem is that some places do not have organized trash collection and we all have more stuff that turns to garbage.
I have visited a small town in S Mexico for a number of years, In the beginning, people burned all their trash in open burn piles or roadside dumping. Now they have free weekly garbage pickup and a central landfill. Roadside trash dropped 95%
the engineering is simple and complex at times its amazing they are doing this
Thanks a lot for picking up after us...you do a great work..I do go to the beach once a week and I try to pick up whatever I see and put them in the trash cans...the work you are doing is really amazing..:)
This gives me so much hope👍👍👍and YIKES 🤯 to how some rivers look. Some countries urgently need to introduce waste management systems🙈🙈
Thanks OC teams. 👍
I haven't heard much about the soy, corn starch testing to replace plastics lately. Any information on that ?
Afraid developing plastic alternatives is out of our scope - we'll stick to cleaning it up! Hopefully there are researchers hard at work developing those alternatives.
Modern agricultural practices have turned soy and corn into industrial waste no longer the natural products you may think that they are😭
Amazing work!! Keep going. You have so much support.
Dont think its exactly what it says on the tin but....
hats off to anyone who is tackling this problem from your DALLMYD to your Boyan Slat.
Your all heroes I'm my eyes, the plastic problem is the BIGGEST problem the planet faces.
Thankyou.
Good job!
All that plastic isn't goin anywhere till somebody finally acts. I can't say thank you enough for the effort
Hi. Thank you for doing this kind work. It is really sad to see my country is one of the biggest to contribute to the plastic waste. As much as it can be said, people are very hard to gain awareness about river pollution.
Thank you! This is the sort of thing I would love to hear about our children learning in public schools... this learning, transforming our world via their creative problem solving. :)
Send this research to ALL governments in the world. And then prioritize the source.
Im just a trader I will be donating money to help with this cause that I feel passion about. Keeps up the fight we are all supporting you. GME profit will go to help with the cause.
Who funded the research of 1000 rivers? Massive logistical effort!
Great job
It gives me goofbumps...it makes me think what I am doing in my life
Iam 19 and in 5 yrs, gaining all the knowledge I want to invent products for our planet🌍
Not plastic I hope
Thank you sooo much for your service!!
This restores my faith in humanity
I really like this.
Thank you guys for doing this.
As a ocean fisher man and loves the beach I praise all your work I love it so much I have a salt water aquarium for 20 yr. oh yea I bought bracelets frame them two guys on t.v. Commercial saving the oceans of trash are you the same people?
It can't be healthy for the people or the animals to have the rivers they live near to be so polluted either. What an awesome job you all are doing working towards cleaning them all up.
India's Yamuna River had turned into public drain .Please take a look at Yamuna and also Ganga river of India 🇮🇳 ....You all are amazing people , and your success will be ours .I hope in future when We grow up we all be the part of your community .🤞🌼 Huge clap 👏 for these amazing people ...🫂
Great job,
I applaud this plastic waste intervention. From the data we can see how individual country contributes to this pollution, be it being having more river systems and demographic distribution along the river banks but also how the country manages waste itself. Lack of drinkable tapped water also increases the use of plastic bottles dramatically. Like carbon emission, use of plastic bags and bottles must be regulated! Last but not least, investments into portable tap water must be made!
thank you for saving our world
thanks for keeping me believe in humanity
Amazing job guys well done