@Rob Phillips It doesn't seem very inspiring to me. How much does it cost to run 2 big ships like that? How much does it cost to extract 1 tonne of plastic from the ocean in this way? How do they expect to transport the plastic from this net that's in the middle of the ocean, to harbor? More importantly, what do they expect to do with this plastic once its been collected? This question is even more changeling for the 'river interceptors' which are located in 3rd world countries with no infrastructure to handle waste, hence the plastic is dumped in the river in the first place. They have not given good answers to this vital question. According to their websites FAQ; "We want to give the plastic collected from the ocean a new life. Our plan is to work with partners to recycle the plastic and transform it into durable plastic products. By recycling the collected ocean plastic into useful products that are made with certified plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, we aim to make the cleanup operational costs, to a large extent, financially self-sustainable." This this pipedream idea of recycling collected plastic is not feasible. It's already incredibly uneconomical to collect plastic from the ocean due to the low quantity of plastic per ocean water filtered through. You then need to transport that plastic all the way to a port, then it must be sorted and processed before it's even begun to be recycled. We can't even recycle plastic using the highly organized and centralized source in the form of garbage collection system. The fact that the Ocean Cleanup company believes recycling is at all doable in the near or midterm future does not make them seem credible. The same issue is seen with their 'river interceptors'. Though these are a far more sensible way of collecting the plastic (more density of plastic in the water, not as harsh operating conditions, far easier to access maintenance), they still have the issue of dealing with the collected waste. The floating debris in rivers is not just plastic, its a mixture of plastic, and dead biological matter like twigs etc. In order for the plastic collected by an interceptor, it must be sorted out from the biological material, and then transported to a facility for further sorting and recycling. These facilities are not going to be close to the interceptors. This means you are going to have a very hard to time transporting this waste material, much like ocean based system. Not only do they think recycling collected river and ocean debris is at all practical, but they think it could even be economical. "we aim to make the cleanup operational costs, to a large extent, financially self-sustainable." Once again, recycling using plastic from waste collection is not economical, and it has none of the collection and transportation challenges that the Ocean Cleanup faces. This is nonsensical. I think a much more practical and honest solution to dealing with the waste material collected, is to incinerate it. Even a dirty incineration system would prevent the plastic from strangling a seal or trapping a fish in bottle. And of course, even with all of this practical issues addressed, we still have the problem of economics. Besides people donating to them charitably, and corporations funding them so they fulfill their ESG requirements, I can't see how they are going to get enough money to do this on a meaningful scale.
@@joeblogs6598 As you’ll hopefully learn in life: everything is a pipe dream, until it isn’t. Have to start somewhere, and figure it out as you go. No one knows the entire solution to every downstream problem at the beginning. That’s what makes this inspiring: the fortitude to keep going and solve an incredibly important and challenging problem, even (and especially) amidst criticism.
@@iwasrobbed It's all well and good saying that, but they still havent addressed the great issue of what they will do with the waste they collect. The fact that they are claiming to recycle it seems to show that they have no idea what to do with it. If they were honest they would tell us of this predicament, and more importantly focus the majority of their efforts in finding a practical solution to the problem, e.g. burning it.
@@iwasrobbed 100% agree on this, humans should be part of the solution, not the problem. They are trying to solve a very big issue, and they are learning has they go.
It's good that the sea life is being taken into account, and I think it's important to realize for people who might be more upset about it that by cleaning up this plastic many more animals will be saved and healthier in the long run than will be accidentally injured or killed.
I wonder how much life is killed in the cleaning of this plastic. Also lots of life live around plastic for some reason. Also before plastic we use gords with bees wax inside for a water bottle or we used glass or animal insides.
I think Ocean CleanUp and Slat deserve the fame and recognition a company like SpaceX and Musk get - lets clean up earth before we plan to leave it!! Brilliant job everybody at Ocean CleanUp!
Now "WE" have another respectable Ocean Clean Up participant! Thank you to Erland Farstad for his cooperation with the fish net manufacturers and the accountability of MORENO traul fisheries of 🇳🇴 Norway. I am so grateful for all the people who contribute to the clean up of our planets oceans, seas 🌊 and rivers. Thank you for System 03. Thank you.
You are the heroes of the 21st century. The next generations will be in big debt to you God bless you and give you paradise because you took care of His beautiful creation.
This is the most productive and logical thinking approach with actual tangible results to one of worlds problems. Great job. Something that makes sense to cheer about.
and then to imagine there were quite a few scientists, oceanographers, biologists, etc. against this undertaking. Props to how far you've come and a great destination that seems within reach.
@@TropicalOceanCleanup thats what they doing, and they cant do much or anything against the plastic in the ground without huge risk doing further damage to the reefs and sealife
I remember years ago, when M. Slat was young, his ideas and energy give me a lot of enthusiasm for your project, but I have to admit, I was skeptical ! Skeptical no more !!! That's legendary stuff level !!! I'm sure M. Slat's name will be in history books for many century !
In addition to cleaning up plastic, saving the ocean creatures and being my hero, you are teaching the world about all the new jobs that environmentalism CREATES! Your vision just keeps expanding as does your incredulous impact on our world. Thank you!!!!!! 🥰
This is by far one of my favorite projects happening on this planet and I’m happy to see the progress moving forward. I know you mentioned that you are compensating for the amount of emissions the vessels emit (which is a lot, those vessels consume a heavy amount of fuel), but HOW are you compensating? Additionally, I’ve noticed that you ship your containers of plastic debris from North America back to Europe. How does that work into your efficiency models for the company moving forward? Perhaps establishing recycling depots and working with local communities to do the same would be money better spent if you intend on removing more debris in the future? Working with the fishing industry and creating nets and systems to expand in size is a great idea, and personally being part of large scale cleanups myself, I’ve noticed that the fishing industry is a huge part of the plastic problem in our oceans. However those polypropylene lines you’re working with to create the next best system, do breakdown and fragment micro plastics over time in the sun (essentially adding to the plastic problem, much more if you intend to implement these systems large scale). Are there materials you can utilize that wouldn’t be shedding these micro plastics over time? And if the intentions are to replace the systems as they get older, what do you do with a discarded 2km long net? Thanks for your efforts!
Doesn't matter, CO2 is not a pollutant, the whole climate thing is a communist scam. What they're doing is addressing real pollution, which should not be stopped by concerns for fake pollution.
I am so thankful for these human beings working to realise this vision. There is an incredibly amount of expertise needed to be able to actually make all this come true. This is mind-blowing an heart-warming🙏❤
Mr Slat thank you for initiating this huge ocean clean up! Make sure you admit merchant marine cadets on your vessels so they can report later plastic concentrations in the oceans for clean up!ALL ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCIES SHOULD SUPPORT YOUR WORK!
You can literally feel the energy that all of these people have for the project. I love the 'lock up until resolved' in a big room part. Perhaps our governments might think of taking this on to fix so many problems with our world. Kudos to you all, dudes
I just love your mission. In the video the gentleman states that 10 of these system 003's could clean the entire pacific patch. Would be interesting to know over what period of time this could potentially take. Would be awesome if we were able to clean it up and then focus more on the rivers as the source. Also, how do you keep ships from running into these large net systems?
They are actually doing a lot on the rivers now. The videos of the interceptors they are using on rivers are fantastic. I'm obsessed with The Ocean Cleanup
I would suggest the other way round - focus on the rivers and then deal with the ocean after…55 tonnes is nothing compared with what could be done with the worst rivers. But the Ocean is sort of the figurehead of this project…it’s in the name right!
@@mmchrisp I used to think likewise. However I’ve come to realize that both should be undertaken at the same time. The huge benefit of tackling the ocean side of the problem is its ability to gather public interest (hence funding) because of the obvious sharing of the oceans between countries. Whereas the issue of the great polluting rivers is often dismissed it as a scandalous but *local* issue under the responsibility of one specific country.
It’s great to see you guys really address the bycatch issue head-on, I see a lot of videos and comments suggesting the project shouldn’t happen simply because of bycatch. To me it’s an absurd conclusion but hopefully this video can put some of those folks at ease :)
@@TropicalOceanCleanup could be just the cost of maintaining a live feed in high quality, also the death of a few animals is worth it, since plasric itself is casuing the slow death of whole ecosystems
@@TropicalOceanCleanup because they wanna spend all th money on cleaning up the ocean, they most liekly are worried that if they start focusing on their social medias, that they might lose their goal, you can use your argument against any company or business. Why cant people be happy for once that someone is finally fixing a big problem that our ancestors created, why not question where the pllastic goes, and how they prevent it from going back?
There's a small group of people - many of whom have a professional interest in seeing ocean plastic as an insoluble problem - who want to see TOC fail. They try to attack the project by imposing fake criteria. For example they complain if the project has even a minimal impact on wildlife, uses fuel, takes government money, or takes private money from the "wrong" sources. For years, they ranted about how TOC was distracting from the "real problem," of river waste. Then TOC announced the Interceptor project to catch river waste. At that point, did they express any gratitude or support? No way.
I love these progress updates! It is really nice to see some good news for a change and your project gives me hope that we can at least reduce the damage we've done to this planet to some extent. Thanks for your hard work!
And somewhere else in the world people glue themselves to the streets.. Ocean Cleanup is an exceptional example of working on a problem not just whining about it and affecting others in a bad way. Keep up the good work CleanUp Team👍
Great work team. As you grow, the scope of the story gets harder to tell so well done to your video production team. This video gives a great overview of the size of the job, the challenges faced and the creative thinking that is needed to create effectiveness in the execution. Loving your sell.
Outstanding, I wish I could work with you guys some day. I feel that my oil spill response cleanup skills could greatly help improve and fine tune this amazing project. Not to mention the 17+ years working offshore on identical vessels.
I never understand why people keep on thinking the only way to help is to join this project. Why not go outside and pick up plastics on the streets, canals, rivers etc? Like me and millions are doing.
@@BalboaBaggins I do that with my family every single time we are out on the river after we anchor the boat and enjoy the river. We clean up our garbage and walk 500 yards in both directions of the beach and fill up 2 garbage bags.
looks bogus, carefully selected make believe images, contradicts plastic's chemistry . Parallels Green Peace approach, looking for the great pacific trash patch, sorry garbage patch, long debunked. What are they going to do with the caught fish, dolphins hopelessly entangled in the net. 1.5 knots is about 3 m/sec Use all the right words : carbon neutral for the diesel engined trawler or is it electric, not a permitted question? How does plastic get caught in the wide net? not a permitted question . how is a dolphin freed from entanglement, or even discovered there, not permitted questions. How much diesel being used, well, you guessed it. Can a neutral observer be allowed to film independently, but of course after signing a no disclosure agreement, the profits? negotiable . The sponsor?
So glad to see that the bright people in this world have developed a method to clean up all the plastic pollution humans have dumped into the Pacific ! Bravo ?
I love this! Especially the part where you work with the fishing industry. Keep it up guys! Also props to them to acknowledge that they are part of the problem.
Every time I see one of your videos, it just fills me with so much hope for the future of our planet and reminds me that while some politicians seem hell-bent on turning this whole planet into a dystopian hellhole, there are still people and organisations doing all they can to prevent that from happening. Thank you for all your incredible work.
Thank you everyone for doing such a tremendous job cleaning the ocean.I hope the world sees your work and stop polluting all water ways,streets which run into all oceans.
This video is so informative. Thank you for bringing us along with your efforts and success. You are doing important work, and I for one, am incredibly grateful.
How inspiring! Every one of us should be following your example, being part of the solution instead of the problem! Thank you for your ideas, heart and souls! Blessings! : )
What an amazing association. I'm really grateful for what you are doing, and it's great that you continue to push forward to improve your job! Can't wait to see the next tests of your improved system 02/B-C and 03!
My ideas that I thought would be nice to share; System 03/A: getting further depth System 03/B: getting 3 layers in order to catch even smaller particles while easing pressure System 03/C: developing a sound-like system that would make living things go away which will contribute to speed System 04: all combined with a possible additional vessel
This is whole process is pretty amazing and people need to listen to the voices behind systems like this against pollution.Our Earth is very important.
You guys are absolutely amazing, an inspiration, doing a job that initially seemed impossible and is now demonstrably within reach and then going beyond into river cleaning. Thank you so much.
Can’t wait to see how it performs. Great to see you guys partnering with industry. I think you might prove out a model of cooperation that can be replicated to solve a huge host of problems in a nimble way.
Dont be so hard on ur selfs. We all know ur doing this for the earth, the ocean, for the animals. Designed around the animals. The fact you'll let trash out so animals arent trapped.says everything i need to know about u all. Little trash escaping is no big deal. U dont want ur efforts to be for nothing. What this is and what ur doing IS the 1st real effort made to create what we've done. All of u r woderful! Thank you so much.
It is great to see that "The Ocean Cleanup" taps into the knowledge of fisherman and companies making nets, to help solve their problems, with solving "our problem". I believe a next step could be to acquire knowledge of "real recycling", where we make new plastic from recycled plastic. Right now, we mix and melt plastics into b-quality plastic products, that are not like the plastics being made new. I believe the plastic industry can make new plastic out of recycled materials, a bit like companies as "loop industries" currently do for PET plastics. Even if the management of most of these companies strongly believe making new plastics from oil is the way to go, their staff may very well know better. An often heard "reason" is the so-called impurity of recycled plastic, where people seem to forget how many heavy metals and poisonous elements need to be extracted from crude oil. It may not be the primary goal for "The Ocean Cleanup" to do this, but they can, and already have, influenced companies in the past. Maybe their momentum will help to pull more knowledgeable people to think about how we can really recycle. If done right, it could give value to plastic waste, that could perhaps finance "The Ocean Cleanup" but could also give a source of income to people in the Third World that live in plastic polluted areas.
Thank you so much for what you do and especially for HOW you do that, all together: your fresh love for Nature to be served by only clean technics, your commitment to perfection opening on new challenges, precise, complex, genially simple, thought through to the details, ecologic best: keep inspired, clear, waters-world-wide, there is definitively an only good solution for every problem. - May you have fair winds and following seas, God Protects and Blesses all your wonderful Teams.
Keep up the incredible work! Amazing to see how the scale is increasing!! Would be interested to see if the collection vessel for System 03 could filter out wildlife via some kind of sorting deck at the end of the neck. Also some kind of AI tool to detect what type of plastics being collected for both education and sorting of recycling would be amazing too! Can’t wait to see the next steps though!!
Keep moving forward to clean up our oceans n rivers to make this world a better place.. God bless u n ur team. We all look forward to seeing ur results for the betterment of planet
At last, we can be proud to be part of a civilisation that appreciates the wonder of nature and sets about to reverse the damage caused by indiscriminate pollution by those who should know better. Well done guys & gals, you make me proud to be human.
Awesome work! It would be great to get funding from the enterprises that used/created this plastic waste. This may incentivize companies to come up with an alternative materials.....
What a fabulous journey from the vision of the young Boyan to this huge removal of plastic garbage. That's absolutely amazing thanks a million to all people involved
The shear size and scope of this project is amazing. I love this like minded community and love the fact you guys are bringing the fishing community in to your fold to create proper netting, gear and resolutions. Keep up the great work and huge budget!! Thank you for this inspiring video.
This is such an incredible undertaking. Thank you for your dedication to this cause. Quick question, "What happens to the plastic you do get out of the ocean? Does it go to landfill? Is there some sort of recycling involved?"
When I was 16 years old some 55 years ago, I was a galleyboy on board various cargo and oil tanker ships operating out of the UK and I saw some fantastic and wonderful things at sea. During long trips where we didn't see land for weeks it was the normal practice to empty bins over the side into the sea. Everything that was in those bins went over the side no matter what it was. There was no where else for it to go. So, to my shame, I have been a part of the problem now facing the oceans. I wish I could go back in time and take out the crap I had dumped in the sea but now my health wouldn't take it. I know it doesn't mean much now but I apologise to the future generations for my ignorance and lack of thought. But we really didn't know any better.
I admire and love what you guys are doing . Dear people please do your part on stuff like this and encourage others especially climate change Aka co2 omissions ☹️
Cooles Projekt, Hut ab Leute. Fragt bitte Lego ob Sie ein Modell vom System 02 raus bringen mit eurem Ozeankunststoff. Wäre eine Mega Coole Verwendung. Gruß Michael
I remember the small beginnings this company had. And to now see the aspirations of System 03.. amazing growth. I remember hearing the skepticism of "skimming the plastics out of the ocean" . . i was a bit skeptical too. It seemed too simple, now i know it's anything BUT simple. The premise is just simple, application is a massive undertaking.
Absolutely. 27 years at sea and done alot of things. Fishing and towboat mostly. The oceans and rivers present variables most have no idea about. They are living breathing things, awesome to watch these guys do this in real time.
I am so happy about how they're telling and showing us what's going wrong. It's amazing. It's not all 'perfect perfect!' they show the difficulties, it's so happy and why and what they'll be doing to fix it
This is just so amazing to see how far this prooject have come. Folowed this project sins Boyan was at Ted x and talked about it and cant wait to see what amazing things you guys can do in the future from this project. :) So a bing thanks to Boyan and All people working at The ocean cleanup and all companys sponsering this and to all people out ther who suport and donate to the project you are all fantastic ❤
Awesome, informative video describing the best solution to cleaner, healthier and natural oceans. Thank you for ALL the great work and effort you and your team provides regarding this long-time crisis. Of course, the ocean water, the fish and other ocean inhabitants thank you too. 👍
