"Hey Siri, start the Interceptor” | Mark Rober & Boyan Slat |  

There should be a live streaming of interceptor on RU-vid, with stats on how much garbage is being cleaned up. It would be a great marketing for these machines

this is the kind of publicity that really changes something

Watching the Interceptor scoop up the trash is so satisfying... kudos to Boyan!

WOW I actually cheered out loud when I saw this collaberation between you and Mark Rober. It's the perfect boost for you guys in terms of money and publicity. This will help make your catch and intercept fleet a reality sooner rather than later. Let's make every dollar totally worth it!

This is so cool. I just saw this campaign recently, as I was like "this guy looks familiar". I did some digging, and it turns out I saw Boyan's TED talk in school when I was 12, talking about putting floating nets in ocean gyres to collect, recycle, and sell plastics collected there. Now, 9 years later, I get to see where this whole thing ended up. Nice to see he never stopped working on it! :D

I'm SO glad he's involved.

I genuinly got emotional when I saw that TeamSeas was supporting The Ocean Cleanup. You guys just got proof of technology with Jenny and now you'll be able to really scale the Interceptor program and it really feels like we're getting there :,D

I'm so happy that after years this project is finally having it's bright light. I have following this channel for some years now.

$50 on a new game or $50 to clean the ocean. Damn this is an easy choice, I'd rather my money go to cleaning the ocean. This news is incredible. Well done guys!!!!

So excited to see that this is actually happening. My heart is full, I will talk to my kids about donating money to this campaign for Christmas/birthdays instead of getting more plastic toys.

Marvelous to see this great success! This is really improving our world!

The problem lies at the source. Those poor people have no other way to dispose of the waste than to throw it on the ground, because no one collects it. The next step should be to try and solve *that* problem, so no future garbage boats are required.

I'm glad this is getting promoted more. This is one project that is worth getting behind. Can't wait to see what product we are going to get for the plastics pulled out after the second voyage into the great patch.

I like how mark rober is just playing with the kids and having fun whereas the others are working hard and explaining everything else. But anyways I love your efforts great job guys :)

Super stoked for this initiative! This has been a favourite charity of mine to support. 🙂🌊

My concern is that after all this Clean up, the local municipalities might dispose off the waste improperly resulting in a certain percentage of the waste back into the rivers. It's a great initiative, I fully support it but it's important that we ensure the loop is complete with proper end disposal of garbage thus ensuring that it does not return to the ocean.

Mark Rober is one of the best RU-vidrs ever, to see him working with you is so awesome 👌

Hey team, the design has an escape route for fish but not the floating vegetation, which is being included in your measurements as trash. I wonder if that's something that could be improved upon? Looks very effective at removing pollution but perhaps also effective at removing plants and maybe that needs an ecologist to measure the significance and keep an eye on to ensure the local living ecosystem isn't collateral damage in this brilliant idea. Amazing overall, well done!

If you constantly live streamed the cleanup on the interceptor in real time, people (me) would watch it for ASMR! It is so satisfying!

Mark "Flippin" Rober😍 THIS is going to be AWESOME (if it wasn't already)!

Great advocacy and invention too for saving our mother nature. The Earth needs inventor/scientist someone like you. KUDOS. Great job. Thank you.

When Mark said "properly dispose of it," what does he mean? Where does all this trash go? Also, I'd love to hear more detail on what is being done with the local communities to reduce and clean up the garbage piling up.

This is amazing seeing this develop from 4 years ago when my social science teacher introduced me to the Ocean Cleanup. There weren't much subs back then, but when we get the amount of eyes Mark can pull in, we gon get a huge rise in the community. LES GOOOOOOOOOOO✨️✨️

this is what i love most, the fact that the two fan bases connected you both... it just couldn't happen before a time like ours. This massive interconnectedness is just incredible

😭😭😭😭💯💯 happy tears for all the things so thankful that there are such good people in the world who care about something beyond themselves

You guys are the future and I absolutely love this collaboration!❤

These are the kind of videos that should go viral… it brings positive changes to the communities they work with and the world we live in👍👍👍

Boyan you really are an inspiration. Instead of just protesting and complaining, you came up with a solution! Hats off to you sir!

Been following the Ocean Cleanup for years and this is really great news, glad this happened.

Now these places just need local garbage collection service to prevent it from going into the rivers in the first place. A few hours once a week where the local citizens collecting trash and place it in dumpsters placed in neighborhoods could make the entire country cleaner and healthier for the locals and drastically cut down on the amount of trash in the rivers as well.

Can’t believe this channel doesn’t have millions of views and subscribers. Incredible work by the guys who are making this happen. It is so badly needed

What a life this guy has made for himself while doing great things! Amazing

And big guy you certainly should have a sense of pride for what you're doing. You & everyone else in all these project world wide are making so much difference to the rivers, seas, oceans & all the creatures & corals that inhabit them. I salute you all. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙

We should build recycling companies directly at the villages with high pollution problems, providing work to residents and taking care of the problem at the source. From garbage grinders to materials separation and preparation for reuse.

Glad to see you have the partners of your work, great job! Thank you so much for everyone and everything you do 👍💪🙏🙏💖

Thank you guys for cleaning my country. I tried to colab with you guys a year ago but couldn't get through. Good luck and will donate

What a great idea to work and promote together with great Mark Rober!!! Just gifted 20 € to the initiative 😎

Bro this is amazing, please capitalize on this opportunity and use it to it's full potential to get people aware of this issue

Hi Boyan! I remember the unveiling of the interceptor 2 years ago. I'm so happy how much your project has grown! Thank you for everything you've done!

The huge cost of the recent gathering of world leaders ended without much being achieved. All that wasted money would have paid for dozens of these amazing boats. We certainly need a few deployed here in the UK.

Proud of our dutch man!!!

This is going to be such a huge success! Love it!

Great initiative. I have just donated 100 USD to remove 100 pounds of trash!

Awesome! These events (including the previous test) will hopefully go down in history as the starting point of the successful cleanup!

The day when i heard about this program to now .........These are some of the happiest days in my life ..I always wanted to do something but I wasn't having man power but now when I am watching them doing so much ... I just can't explain my feeling ... It feels so good .

I'm really pleased to see you pushing the number of videos you are posting. The more you post the more people will come across it and the more interest will be raised. There is still very very little news of you in the big media outlets and this is still a hindrance to your work.

Adding a “top 10 donators” list to your website could lead to good competition between those who can really afford it at the very top to donate larger amounts to this cause to be at the top of this list! It’s good gamified PR for them and just adds to this great cause for you! Imagine Jeff bezos donating $5m, is coming first, just to be out donated with $6m by Elon and they go back and forth for number 1.

Just love your work. We all support you! Keep it up. God bless and guide your path.

I am so grateful for what you do and so proud of your efforts! Mat God richly bless your lives. THANK YOU so so much!

Legends! I donated to teamseas a few days ago. Someone had to tackle this - good on you for being the ones to do it!

Really happy to see this big publicity on the project, this is really nice!

This is really going to get this stuff going! Before you couldn’t really get over 100k views but now you’ll def get much more

Hello Sr. Boyan Slat Fantastic work,Im big fan of the Ocean Cleanup, much respect and love from San Francisco of Macoris Dominican,Republic peace

Keep up the great work we need more people like you doing important work for our planet.

As a recent purchaser of the sunglasses I can vouch for their quality. Fantastic lenses. Great work everyone involved in this project.

I'm not sure if you read these comments, but I've been tinkering with an idea for a while, for a different aspect of _improving_ the plastic situation. Maybe just a pipe dream, but if you would humor me a sliver of your time to read it, maybe some of it could gain traction in the right hands: Current state of plastics is that the vast majority of it ends up as general trash, because incredibly difficult and resource intensive sorting, very low rate of intercompatibility, and very extensive use of thermoset plastics. So here's my idea: Get industries together under an umbrella organization, and give them government sticks and carrots incentives - and develop a new set of standardized plastics. Or more specifically, a few "sets" of intercompatible thermoplastics. Branded clearly on the products for human sorting (the current markings have been so messed up over tve years, they do not really aid much in that effort these days), but Ideally also optically identifiable by machines. Use some kind of inert tracer material unique to each thermoplastic "set", that will rapidly react when exposed to some kind or radiation wave length, in a way percieveable to sensors. This way both human (consumers) and industrial waste treatment machines can sort and separate waste plastics into these few, easily managable sets of intercompatible thermoplastics, that can then be cleaned, and melted down through a predictable process and yield a reasonably predictable thermoplastic blend - and thus be reused to make new products. The end product from that might have some slightly inferior characteristics compared to virgin and single-type-and-source recycled thermoplastics, but there's plenty of products made where that isn't really an issue. If we tune these intercompatible thermoplastics well, with these ambitions in mind, that blended recycled thermoplastic _could _*_in theory_* continue on in that Phoenix-with-memory lifecycle indefinitely, as long as the formerly mentioned tracer is kept detectable so that contamination is kept minimal. I suggest a few sets of intercompatible thermoplastics, because there would be significant characteristics limitations to the range of properties achieveable for each thermoplastic, while retaining that intercompatibility. One range could be great start, but if we _really_ want wide industry adoptation, then a much wider span of material properties need to be attainable. Which I don't think is doable without at least 2-3 different "sets" of those ranges. It can't be drastically more than that though, or both the comsumer/human and industrial separation would get far too complex and costly. We need to keep this "system" attractive, including in operational cost, to reach that initial seed that puts enough of these thermoplastics in circulation to make the recycling stage attractive. If we can get to that point, this "arrangement" can go with minimal govt incentives as it approaches self-sustainability. I believe that this "system", once it reaches that _relatively (!)_ early stage critical mass, would become self-accellerating. I do believe it's important to abide by KISS in this one, and not get too greedy or absolutist, or it would be orders of magnitude more difficult to gain early traction and adoption. In that case, we wouldn't achieve anything more than a new process route, back to the same landfills and rivers. And possibly burn some important bridges in the process. I do recognize the ultimate ambition of doing away with _all_ plastics, at least those not easily compostable. But as with climate change, we need a very wide array of different prongs and tools as we work towards better sustainability. We'll never get there in reasonable time (or at all) without fairly extensive intermediary and iterative solutions, many if not _most_ of them quite short of ideal, but each moving us closer. There doesn't currently exist any optimal one-size-fits-all solutions, for these kinds of truly gigantic undertakings, ideal or otherwise. Thank you for your time.

Truly out of this world what you and your team have done! My God bless and magnify your efforts!

Big fan of these guys and their work. What can be done to create garbage service for those poor communities? Maybe this is where I can do something in the future.

If only world organisations worked this transparent and efficient we would have solved this issue years ago. Will follow this!

Awareness is key! Spread the word of plastic pollution! Thank you Ocean Cleanup Team!

We need a LOT more of people like you

I'm so happy to see some big mainstream eyes on your project and some big funding for the interceptor! 15000000 pounds of Trash is amazing. Really so happy about this

You all are my heroes!!! Cheering you on and everyone who makes a move for the good of the planet!!!

I have been following The Ocean Cleanup for a while. This is such a great partnership and will get alot of trash disposed of

It’s kind of crazy to think that a huge global multi million fund raising campaign is needed in order to fix an infrastructure problem the local government neglects to solve for this (poor) community.

I saw Mark's video and immediately sent this out to my river cleaning friends. Good job!

I love boyans sunglasses! Made of plastic from the oceans. Very nice!

How about putting the large dumpster they put all the river trash (and plants) in the slum first and just collect it directly. that has to be 10x less energy waste.

Fantastic work! We need more people like this!

Love the new short updates! Very creative, well done guys ✨

I’m curious where the interceptor trash is taken. Is it actually more efficient economically to use the interceptor rather than helping build on land waste management infrastructure? While less trash is entering the ocean, people still have to live with it in their communities.

Two of our greatest modern day inventors and one hell of a beast 👏 endless possibilities

This is great and i think you could have even more impact if you also tow some of those containers to the communities upriver so they could throw their trash directly in the container.

I feel like creating a real waste management system in these places would do much more

Is it just me or do I miss transparity on where the waste is going to after catching it? In many countries landfills are still common. That is a pretty shitty alternitive as well as it will eventually pollut ground water...

I picked up a lot of garbage around the Great Lakes this summer, this project is awesome and I hope it continues to grow!

I like that this guy is ACTUALLY DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

Nice! Proud to have this device come from the Netherlands, My home country!

Love it, you guys deserve this so much

"GO OCEAN CLEANUP 2024" AWESOME VIDEOS!!

You guys are really doing a fantastic job. I seriously would like to work for you and help the world free from plastic pollution. 😊

Yes! This needs this publicity! Come us everyone! Let's get to 80 mil to clear the Great Pacific Patch!

These young men give me renewed faith in humanity!

Instead of putting trash collectors in the rivers, how about collecting money for waste management trucks so it won't get into the rivers in the first place?

Glad to see everyone have to do about the environment 👍❤️

Proud to be dutch 🇳🇱 such a great invention this is

It's so awesome when two of your favourite RU-vidrs do a Collab!! Awesome!!

The elephant in the room is the removal of organic matter from the river , sutch as natural wood/ plants and floating seeds . This is also intersepted And this may actually not be a good thing. Floating natural debri has role in the open sea invirment as protective habitat for arcipelic species and as a food source and as a way for plants to spread.

The bigger picture is "What can be done to produce a self sustainable waste management solution in the poor communities?" Surely the waste can be sorted and used individually. Paper, and cardboard can be burned to produce energy. Plastic can be ground and extruded into shapes such as roof and road tiles. Metal can be cast and cut into machine parts. Food waste can be composted to enrich the soil. So the bigger questions are: Where does the catalysis money come from to build the programs and factories? and How to get enough energy to melt the plastics and metals? One solution is to start the separation process, and use the food waste to produce compost, which in turn produces food, and more compost. The compost can also be sold. This will provide more money to community in order to fire off the plastic and metal factory solutions.

as a dutch person this makes me proud ngl

It's the coolest thing ever to see people like you using science to solve huge world problems all by yourself. Kudos to all of the developers and everyone supporting this campaign. Team seas, here we go 💪🌊

Guys I looked up the these Interceptors cost about 777k dollars, so if we raise 30 million dollars and 15 goes to the ocean cleanup, then we might have 20 Interceptors instead of 3!!

Successful people don't become victorious overnight. What most people see as a glance wealth, a great career purpose is the results of hard work and hustle over time. I pray that anyone reading this will be successful in life.

Love this! I really hope this catapults your success in cleaning more!

this really warms my heart

Loving these last few videos!

Y’all should look at bubble barrier I feel like they would add the extra step in ensuring more of the below surface trash gets recycled

Need a few of these all up and down the Mississippi River. We also need to stop farm waste emptying into rivers.

Let's not leave it to the youtubers only. Let's all contribute. Our government isn't acknowledging this man so Let's stand with Boyan!

Now this is the kind of content that the whole world need to see and know more about!!! Save the planet not only for ourselves but for our children and future generations 💙