The Ocean Cleanup’s System 03 Captures Record Amounts of Plastic From the Pacific 

Okay, quick question, what happens to the sea creatures that get caught in this net. Am I missing a video? Because I do not see how you could get absolutely not sea life caught in this net. Kudos for the project, don't get me wrong, I am absolutely grateful for what you do. I just know that a lot of sea animals and plants have been badly damaged. This maybe s chose the lesser evil, but with enough minds on it, we can figure out how to make this a win/win situation.

How much fuel are you burning to do this?

You collect it and sort it and then where does all that plastic go?

@@jf1a8x1 Jeez - watch the video before making empty-headed remarks!

@@morghana3775 They have a system in place for it. I forget what video it was but they have a mechanism that allows them to avoid it.

every plastic disposing NATION should be called to task. Sadly, I think if these folks work harder, they will just run in to more trash. The trash has to stop.....

This!!!

Bad idea

Sell ALL plastic things w/a Serial NUMBER !!!! Collect THE CONSUMERS!!!! W/fines ! Goes UP w/each piece !! Me flooring on the Passenger side is proof I recycle n CARE !! Can only imagine the alcohol n cigarette butts they sweep up !!!!😡😡😔😔

@@terryherrera5252 Does the word "with" not exist in your vocabulary? Are you that lazy? Same with "and".

Startup? What do they sell?

@@DannerBanks why dont you look it up? google exists.

The only thing this captures is VC

yeah when they have two ships burning about 30k a day on fuel. burn plastic catch plastic burn catch burn catch 🤷‍♂

@@JustPlayingGames247 what you doing then? Why dont you go walk around and pick up garbage at your local lake ?

I predict the garbage patch will be even bigger in 10 years than it is now.

@@roger0929 That's because you're clueless

@@MaikNL maybe not perhaps u r 4 being so judgemental

They aren’t “keeping” ours oceans clean, they’re cleaning up the mess being made by plastic producers, users, fishing and shipping operations. Amazing young man and amazing organization.

Sure, let's keep removing a small fraction of plastic that's washing into the ocean during the same time. The only solution is a plastic ban.

And he could have started a demolition company using his concrete balls but instead he turned to cleaning up the ocean...

Ok bot

Amen to this!

Plastic Balls bro

Agreed! 💚💙

Maybe a Nobel prize is in order

@Donsestiro Agree absolutely ❤ Isn't there a category for Environment Champions? If not, there should be : )

@@donsestito7679 I agree, although I wonder if one specific Nobel really applies.

@@hugodesrosiers-plaisance3156 Nobel peace prize is given out for all sort of reasons. Climate change and pollution is a major threat to world peace.

That must have been a truly dismal thing to go through. Just how rotten we are to our planet laid bare.

More of the sailing vlog channels should cover this more.

Me too! What a wonderful human with enough brain savy to make it work even in this greed based society!

I remembered him getting over shadowed by the "How dare you" girl.

@@nwyk153 you can tell which was the installed diversion and which was authentic

@@nwyk153 Nah, one person talking about the environment does not over shadow another. We all know it is an important cause so it is good with several public voices being heard.

@@_TheDudeAbides_ Environmentalists have a reputation for being all talk and expecting other people actually do the hard work. It nice to see some environmentalists do the hard work.

@@LuciousKage Some of it is recycled, some of it is disposed in a way that won't reach the ocean, i.e landfills. It's not ideal, but its heaps better than to *not* do something about it. The disposal is taken care of by local companies, so each geographic location has its own solutions to the plastics.

i guess so, but the issue is that is still kicking a can, instead of fighting the root. @@alimanski7941

Thank God there are no geniuses in the human race

@@LuciousKage just send it back to the India so they can throw it back into the river (like they are doing right now so 1000x more garbage flows into the ocean) - so the cycle can continue. Thats genius system - that way this kid an other involved people can have their cool "planet changing" job, viewers and sponsors can get some feel good content and nothing meaningful gets done.

@@LuciousKage in some cases you can actually burn plastics with proper filtration. The noxious gasses get filtered out and can be turned into something inert or less harmful and much smaller.

Exactly! At least they are actually doing something, something amazing.

+1 - we need many more duplicates of this system deployed.

What do they do with the collected plastics? Burn it?

Those with endless praise for feel-good projects such as this should look up the broken window fallacy. The root of the problem is not being addressed.

@@rustyshackle917 What is the root of the problem? The consumer or the producer? Capitalism or Population? What about the upcoming Ubiquitous “heavy-metal” wastes from Electric-future? (EV- batteries, solar panels; etc) Plastics are Ubiquitous but (mostly) inert to life. Heavy metals are toxic…and will contaminate land and waters…. everywhere…

🤣 wake up

@@JustPlayingGames247go back to sleep

@@TheTanman412 truth hurts don't it educate your self to delusional to see to thick to know

@@JustPlayingGames247Toddle off troll. Time to finish your fingerpainting.

As George Collins said: The planet doesn't need saving. It's been around for billions of years and will continue to exist for billions more after we are long gone via extinction. It's the people who needs saving.

They have my vote.

Agreed!!!!

Only if he openly declares where the problem is coming from. It’s not White countries. The mess is coming from Asia, Africa and South America.

Some woke blk girl is probably going to win it for doing absolutely nothing

I mean, if this isn't humanitarian, then what is?

*signed: the plastics industry. Not your mess, not my mess. Most of the plastic comes from my places with inadequate waste infrastructure where the plastics industry operates with impunity. They should fund recycling of the many types of plastics they produce.

@@julmaass take responsibility, it is us as a whole.

You mean China's mess.

​@fareshajjar1208 It's all of us. We all work together. No time for blame or finger pointing.

@@KeePenne But it's not. We know where it's coming from and it's NOT evenly distributed. People blaming the 'plastic industry' are insane. They just sell the stuff to consumers. It's consumers from very specific places that toss their crap out into nature. Where I live we collect. It's not my mess.

We need to stop promoting the use of it to start with not the clean up

@@dustintacohands1107 I'd say both, but absolutely, the source of the waste must be minimized as a top priority!

@@Orgakoyd yes of course but the production and distribution of waste is so vast I would probably be depressed all day if I saw how little of a difference Ocean cleanups work makes when people $HIT ALL OVER IT 5 minutes later. I think the amount of crap pouring into the oceans hourly is probably beyond disturbing and very dangerous. Imagine all these years the spots where it collects underwater the clouds of just nasty waste going into ocean our food and US. Sorry ranting I’m just amazed how western governments say they care so much yet they could never dream of controlling plastic or waste until it makes sense economically. I love to swim especially underwater free diving and when I see floating plastic crap I wanna puke it literally gives me nightmares like it’s poison in my blood scares me more than clowns and clowns scare the crap outta me…. Ok not more than clowns but one step below

@@dustintacohands1107 Quote - _'We need to stop promoting the use of it to start with - '_ You've got no idea what you're talking about. If we followed your plan - then half the population of the world (consisting mostly of poor people) - would starve to death.

We need to stop producing plastic. Word.

It’s not the lack of manpower, but the lack of motivation and political will to do what’s necessary

@@andmos1001 exactly. it's simply not profitable enough..

I agree, but plastic is the most convenient. Ever drink from a PAPER straw? Or drink from a aluminum can without the plastic liner inside the can? New plastic, made from oil, is better quality & cheaper than recycled plastic. Would you pay for $20k for a used car with 150k miles, or a new car with 5 miles?

There's nothing wrong with paper straws. I grew up with them and guess what? I still use them. Grow up folks!

We can individually cut back on the plastic we use. Governments move at snail pace don't they.

There's nothing wrong with plastic, there's something wrong with people throwing it into nature

@@lanatsifCorrect! But, let's go 1 layer deeper and ask "why do they do it?" The main reason, by far, is poverty. Drive through affluent neighborhoods and you see almost zero trash. Drive through poor neighborhoods and you see trash everywhere. Next layer: Government theft and intrusion, Socialism, and totalitarianism cause most poverty.

How much money did you donate?

Exactly what happened with Starlink.

Let's try some math. Their goal is to reach 100kg per hour of trash collection, that is 2400 kg per day, which is 2.4 tons per day x 365 days is 875 tons per year. Currently conservative estimate puts the amount of plastic at 150+ MILLION tons today. Lets also pretend then 15 million tons of new plastic are not entering the ocean each year. So, to clean up the mess in 10 years like they tell you in the video, that would be 15 Million tons per year, and with each pair of ships collecting 875 tons per year, you would need 17,150 pairs of ships, over 35,000 ships working 24 hours a day collecting garbage. There aren't 35,000 ships of this size/type on planet earth. This whole project is not realistic to accomplish the goals it claims it can. Simple math shows you its all bull.

@@theboringchannel2027 So, what is your recommendation? Do nothing? If so, you just may be stuck in the first phase of innovation, ie "it will never work."

@@TonyK3130 Doing this is OBVIOUSLY NOT the actual solution. It helps bring awarness to the problem, but itself is not the workable solution. This is not the first phase of it will never work, its not a functional idea, the math shows that. Even if they made things 20x more efficient than today, it would require thousands of ships working for a decade or more, those resources do not exist, and the cost to build would be in the trillions. You paying for this?

@@theboringchannel2027 you looked up plastic in the entire ocean, if you look it up in the great pacific garbage patch, its only 80,000 tons. If they can bring tons of garbage out of the ocean everyday i dont know why you'd complain.

Stop subsidizing oil theft and this all goes away immediately.

So you are willing to pay more for everything you buy that's encased in plastic packaging?

@@roger0929 Probably not. People love the talking but hate the doing.

@@roger0929 yes I am. The difference in cost would be nominal.

@@roger0929 yes I am willing to pay a little more in order to fund the cleanup. The actual increase in cost spread out over millions of items would not even be noticeable.

And if we do that, all they have to do is add one extra cent every time you buy a bottle 🙄 in an open market the consumer will have to pay for every green tax at the end of the day

they will just raise their prices to compensate for the increased production costs

If only companies would stop producing plastic products. If only people would be more diligent. If only tsunamis didn’t occur like in Japan and sweep half of the country’s garbage etc. into the ocean. If only….

it's the story of the pusher or the pusherman. who are you going to go after?

@@rafael_lanagood they can use something else or push recycling more

Much more eficient to catch at the source in the rivers. This is just a waste of time and fuel

​@@2adamastlol you do know that they are already doing that 😂

​@@2adamastyou should probably watch the video before commenting

They got 100 tons this time (probably half of it was water) plus the 7 tons of their second run and they brought their catching systems back. One of the local garbage trucks here moves more plastic. Ocean going tugs burn 10 tons to 15 tons per day. But they are forced to continue sea operations because of the fans expectations.

Exactly... but money (petroleum business) has compromised any effective action.

Always complaining

@@DavidSchneiderIP Chemistry has compromised a solution. Petrochemical companies want nothing more than to invent a new polymer that doesn't rely on petroleum. Demand for such a product is high and it would be immensely profitable. It just doesn't exist yet. Plastic has been a god-send. Look around you at everything made of plastic and think about the extra cost and weight that would be incurred if you had to make the same product out of wood or metal. A lot of products simply wouldn't be feasible, much less economically viable.

Not eating fish may also help sea-life

Intelligent people don't need reminders from a random YT comment to see that it's a win/win for Earth and humanity.

@@will532 your definitely not eating enough fish

@@beyn7236 ??

saving sea life is helping to save the earth??? This also helps to show people how much waste there actually is, which can influence change to use less plastic which produces harmful chemicals that is killing wildlife and the earth. I agree that a lot of people advocate to save the earth for their own vitality, but you must be ignorant if you believe that cleaning plastic out of the ocean isn’t beneficial to the planet at all. Please do your research next time you comment.

And make plastic sunglasses because they NEVER, EVER end up in the ocean!!!! LOL

​@@roger0929did you even watch the video? They are working together with KIA

To be fair: you cannot do anything else when on a ship.

For real

can't agree more

Water?

Actually the rubbish raft in the pacific is mostly garbage that has been dumped on land and found its way into the river systems and then to the sea. The reason it collects the way it does is due to currents. Don’t blame sea vessels for the problems that you and I have caused.

I have seen one of their update videos where it was stated they were shocked as well to see how much of an issue is caused by ghost nets. They are also catastrophic for the wildlife in a way far worse than the smaller pieces floating about.

A long while ago, the NYT published a series of four articles called Outlaw Ocean (I don't like the NYT much but these were excellent). They basically described how incredibly difficult it is to regulate any operation in international waters. Poaching, polluting, dynamite fishing, slavery even. There needs to be a joint global effort in that regard.

Greta Tunberg has done a lot to keep some focus on environmental problems. I applaud her for that.

The plan is to deploy 10 of them at a time.

@@CNET that's makes sense... but how are they getting fund do all that?? just from donations??

If that is the case every body who buys a non recyclable Plastic bottle should pay a tax too.

If that is the case every body who buys a non recyclable Plastic bottle should pay a tax too.

yep. tax it out of existence or to a manageable point.

@@ericbuhrendorf What the heck do you replace plastic with? Wood? Metal? Taxing it sounds good, but the vast majority of these plastics come from countries like India, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, etc. They can't afford a tax on plastic, and their government would never allow such a tax. The fishing industry is responsible for a lot of it as well, but whats the solution to that? We can barely keep Chinese fishing boats out of protected waters. How are we going to regulate whether they clean up their nets?