The Ocean Cleanup Reveals New Interceptors: Barrier and Tender 

I'm loving seeing Ocean Cleanup taking advantage of the recent coverage of their operation. They must be getting a lot more investment and interest than back in the pre-2019 era which is clearly letting them try out new ideas more frequently. Great to see!

It is so terrific to see someone doing something, anything, positive for all of mankind. Keep up the great work! Hopefully more and more people will become aware of your efforts and support you.

Kinda blows my mind that for just $1B we could build an interceptor for the each one of the 1000 most polluting rivers (which is the ocean cleanup's goal). It's such a tiny amount of money on a global scale, and yet it would basically stop new plastic from getting into the ocean. As the ocean cleanup's tech is further validated, I'd like to see the global community commit to making this a reality by the end of the 2020s.

I love seeing the Ocean Cleanup’s evolution! What they are doing is absolutely amazing and essential to the well-being of our marine life and ecosystems. Thank you for sharing this! 🙌🙌🙌

thanks to these celebrities and influencers for their support and bringing attention to this project. awesome to see progress on something that means so much to all of us

That whole cleanup movement is honestly one of the things that make me re-ignite the joy to live. I looooove to see those kinds of things that clearly is the best thing for the planet & everyone. It's no ''it depends on how you see it & it can be good for some bad for others'' kind of stuff that we always get. It's ALL THE WAY perfectly good.

Great video, I am The Ocean Cleanup biggest fan. Came out of retirement here in the Philippines to help what I can. Sadly due to lack of local support my mission is in trouble. I gave it my all and did make a difference but no one noticed here and I'm getting burned out and feeling hopeless. I love seeing smaller barrier's being installed, hope there are many more to come.

I love this guy and his company! What an incredible and caring person he is, out of all the people trying to clean our oceans, I believe he is the one who genuinely cares for our planet and is not in it for the money 😁 Thank you Boyan 🙏

Thanks to all people who are part of this! You are true heroes! Makes me happy and believe more, that humanity can change! Good job with the rivers although education in these areas about trash would be really important but meanwhile let's block the sources! I think it's a fabulous idea! Good job Boyan Slat! I admire your work!

one of the few companies, if not the only one, that i can fully support without having doubts about their ulterior motives. the ceo did several interviews with joe and it feels weird but reassuring seeing how someone just wants to do good

I love how they didn't just build a few thousands of vehicles, but found a way to make the biggest impact with fewer resources. Keep Earth beautiful. 😍

Grateful to these folks for their efforts.

The is the smartest thing ever!!! I want to thank everyone that is a part of this!!!! 💞💞💞

Its fantastic to see that something really good happens in these crazy times

Thanks for keeping this project alive and covering this

Finally, CNET puts focus on something important! Let's make the plastic producers responsible!

Thank you! To anyone helping keep this place a better place.

Some of the most relevant work occuring in our time, and very little coverage of this. Thank you for your work and dedication.🔥🔥🔥🔥👍👍👍

Maldives is finally starting to recycle, all the schools collect grade 1 and 2 plastics now and everyone in the islands are collecting and to make this more fun, the group has announced that they would award people who collects more than this and that amount of bottles, this is gonna be fun

I’m addition to what Ocean Cleanup is doing it would be nice to see companies responsible for the items ending up in the waterways take responsibility. Education is important to shutting off the tap of waste. It was hard to see in another video children dumping entire garbage cans of waste into a river. Infrastructure for proper disposal of trash needs to be looked at too. I am thinking of Guatemala for an example. Grateful Boyan and his teams are trying to do something! 🙏❤️👏

What a worthwhile endeavor and kudos to all of you directly involved.

Thank you CNET for doing these updates and educating us on current and future technology/plans/goals!!

Thank you,God bless all of the people that are involved.

It's a nice idea, except there are fish that will use it to spawn on, like the common eel that you find in our rivers and ponds, where the weed rafts have gone now, they are relying on flotsam and jetsam to spawn, and then there are the fish that will use Flotsam and jetsam to feed

I remember glasss bottles, recycle drives and refunds for returning bottles. Glass is fully recyclable. Would it be better is coke moved back to glass?

thank you so much for leading the way and showing us such an excellent style of efforts❤️

Gives me hope! Finally at least some money is spent not on military build-up, but on the environment. I'm very impressed with these young people taking on this great challenge that is well overdue for solving.

this is one of the things when you say something and start doing it.. Boyan Slat you Sir are amazing...

My big question is how are we properly disposing of the garbage after it is captured? A lot of plastics aren't recyclable, what are we doing about that?

I would really love to see these incorporated into local port operations.

It is unbelievable that people don`t have respect for the nature, it is great what you are doing guys.

this man is a heroe and the persons that caught the project are heroes too. you are what Earth need to fix the mess we did.

Looks great. But the real question is what are they doing with all the plastic they pull out? The "recycle" centers we have have now are lackluster at best. It wont do any good if the plastic they pull out ends up back in the ocean.

Well done boys you’re doing a stellar job! The company’s that produces this stuff should be paying for your costs!get theses down to the Philippines and Caribbean

Thank you for cleaning this planets oceans. This act carries forward a great healing energy for our mother earth, and therefore all of us. Cleaning up this planet is part of raising all of our vibration. These people should win a Nobel prize. Well done for leading the way for others to help clean up our home.

These companies should be involved since they are the U.S largest manufacturer's of plastic Exxon Mobil Corporation Chevron Corporation DuPont de Nemours Inc

Excellent. No hard sell. No table-thumping criticisms of polluters. Just focus on collection from the water.

they should add a third ship to the ocean clean up and have that ship at the retention point which would allow for continuous retrieval of trash; retention point would be open now and not closed. have a conveyor of some sort at the end tip of the retention point that would bring the collected trash to the deck of the third ship . yes, you're adding a third ship but you're also easing the stress on the retention tip as well as the whole net, and also you don't have to stop the operation to empty the retention tip anymore. you can just sail for sixty days without ever stopping. it would speed up the process.

Thanks guys. This is the kind of news that the world needs. 😊🌎☀️

These are really positive developments. Thank you for sharing!

Ik 1/2000th doesn't sound like much of a dent but that's actually amazing, they literally just started and don't have that many of them up and running yet.

These should be mandatory in every UK river in large cities

I love that with all these people's help we can all live longer on our earth and not be worried about it exploding in 1,000,000 years

Every country should have one of this.

This makes my heart smile. Thank you, thank you, thank you! Sudbury, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦 ♥️

Great stuff! Well done to Coca-Cola for coming onboard and supporting this great initiative! I'm sure there are *dozens* of other big companies too that could help out. If each of them gave (say) 10 or 20 million dollars, that would lead to a *MASSIVE* fleet of interceptors!

Im so happy this group is making this happen, and I hope they make billions in profits, they will deserve every penny

Ocean Cleanup: Does what no one else does and takes on the task of cleaning our oceans. Also Ocean Cleanup: Christens a tender by smashing a champagne bottle against the side, showering the beach floor with glass.

All top Auto, Textile & FMGE companies must sponsor Interceptors.

This is soo cool :D 🔱....they shud use it for the rivers in india :D

Man I'm so happy seeing this! Keep up the amazing work guys 👍

2:44 defeating the whole purpose of cleaning the ocean smashing a glass bottle into the harbor LMAO i know its only 1 bottle and its a celebration....don't come at me just thought it was funny

Keep up the good work all involved, much love from Scotland

Keep up the work you guys, we're counting on you.

There is hope in the galaxy

I love the ocean cleanup these guys do. But why launch the boat with the traditional breaking glass right in the water .

I love how they smashed a glass bottle which will sink below than it can catch not the smartest thing to do if thats what you want to avoid 2:43

The plastic recovered can easily be turned into clean diesel fuel by a simple distillation project. I hope these people are doing that instead of putting it in a land fill.

It is even better that companies come up with sustainable methods of packaging

7:52 but how many fish end up being caught in the net, in average? I imagine that it's inevitable, to some extent, to have some "casualties of war" in this circumstances, and a few fish should be acceptable, but I'm curious to know the number of unlucky fishes that end up being fished by accident.

Increasingly skeptical of super-ambitious *ocean* cleanup; Vox article had some valid opposition. maybe river cleanup has a chance

It’s great that these are also creating jobs as they need to employ people to run the boats

I really appreciate your job, I have seen your another vedio where, you are using two boats to collect garbage, you are saying in this vedio, you all are working for new machine to pick up garbage. I have one suggestion. You either use boat or manual. You make circle entering towards inside using one end, another end will be free to cover the machine. Inside circles you open after machine cover the outer edges. Make circle around machine. You can reduce the areas of circle for better functioning of machine to collect garbage. Second suggestions is. If you don't want to use machine. Reduce the areas of circle by entering one end inside circle. You put net from outside part of circle and collect garbage inside net .playing playing with circular circles you will know . Third suggestions is If you want to make barriers, You can use chroched net of plastic bottles , make it like Garland. It's cheaper and durable. I really appreciate all your help to clean garbage from water. Namh shivay.

that’s an interesting new type of boom ( fyi that’s “barrier” is mostly known as a boom. it is also typically used to isolate oil spills)

We need to make this fleet larger than all the navy’s in the world combined

It’s insane how the ocean cleanup made it ! Awsome !

Governments around the world should make large plastic producers, such as Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Nestle responsible for their waste. Governments should force them to donate a small percentage of their revenues to the ocean cleanup.

Such a feel-good initiative

Thank you for putting the interceptor 002 in malaysia.

Doing this, simple solutions, taking action (and showing us): awesome. Having said that... 3:30 Front-end-loader-on-a-boat seems an inefficient way to empty filled up cachement areas. If that's what they weredoing. Drive inside with more coveyor belt to hopper collection?

I live in Johannesburg South Africa & one of the rivers in Johannesburg - the Jukskei River, flows through a number of informal settlements where people literally dump their trash as the two kids did in your video. When there are flash floods tons of plastic and other garbage lands up in the river and washes downstream affecting all wildlife. There are annual river clean ups but nothing is being done to clean the river on a day to day basis. i believe one of your barriers could really work. Please can you tell me how to get hold of one of these barriers. Thanks Norma Levin

wow about 15 years ago i spent a year cleaning up ballona wetlands we even made watering systems and got rid of invasive plants

This is the most satisfying video I have ever watched.

The ocean clean up will never end never

Ik ben zo trots op iedereen die een deel van deze project spelt !!!!

You all are great!! Thank you for what you do!!!!

Fantastic video - so clearly explaining what the Ocean Cleanup is doing - really hope to see some Japanese companies get on board ;) to sponsor cleanup vessels around the world where the plastic packages products are exported to - as long as plastic is impossible to escape as consumers we need organizations like this to show how dangerous and damaging these short-term focused decisions to continue using single-use plastics are to our common future

Im glad to see this being done, but I'm still confused as to how *so much* plastic ends up just floating down creeks and rivers.

Naples,Italy was doing this back in the 80s

This just put a smile on my face and makes me so happy thank you ocean cleanup for your amazing work may God continue to bless you guys🙏💯❤🔥

Nairobi river needs this

This is a good step. Then we gotta stop putting plastic in rivers and find better ways to recycle it. Then we gotta figure out how to get rid of the plastic that's already deep in the ocean and embedding itself in our food chain.

Keep it going!!!! Please don't ever stop this effort....

So good to see people going out cleaning up humanities mess that we made thank you very much to these people and what they do🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

I did my speech 121 assignment about 4 years ago on the great pacific garbage patch and it really means a lot that something like this is happening.

Man who invented these machines should win a noble prize. I know that consists of series of annual awards given in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and peace but maybe it's time to consider adding environmental as well.

This makes me so happy to see. I sincerely hope we're not a few decades too late.

I'm glad they're getting the solids but it's not the solids that is ruining the water like the chemical dumping that is still going on and which passes right through this barrier.

This does my heart good! Love&peace&respect from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.

AMAZING! Minus them breaking a bottle into the ocean to christen the journey - you just added more garbage into the ocean LOL

Great to hear of this joint effort 🙂 WE’ll keep up the SPEAK 👍 BOYAN SLAT & All ASSOCIATES - non profit org. GOD BLESS

I'm greatful for passionate people like you guys and those who are in a position to provide help.

Need somthing like this for the floods in nsw in Australia

Well, we really need you in Canada too

Fantastic video. Thanks ocean cleanup! We will all help make sure your products become obsolete soon by not putting trash there in the first place 👍🏻

Question tho, Why aren't they building recycling centers at River mouths? Would cut costs, the plastic and stuff would have already travelled there... just always made sense to me

I had to hold a presentation in school about this topic 3 Years ago.

This is so amazing too see , some one putting there words into actions . Not like out sheets government. I'd like to know what happens to the glass , that you smash on the side of the boats ???

This is a more productive way for Corporations and Hollywood to virtual signal.

I love river trash barriers our best hope to stop plastics from getting in the ocean. But from 2012 to 2018 to install this one? Would love to see some trash extracted,,,it's not that easy.