Will This Be Our Biggest Ever River Catch? 

I was thinking the same thing, they must be holding back 100s of tons of crap

The trash is floating on the surface of the water, not suspended in midair. The only force on the cable is proportional to the minimal drag created on the bottom of the trash pule by the water flowing underneath. It’s steel cable and it’s been around for 150 yrs… not exactly cutting edge engineering

​@@Jcreek201no the trash will block the flow of water you can also see it in the video when the barricade is going back further and further The other interceptor snapped because of this problem

@@hermelnderhans I’m not disputing that. However the solution of “use a bigger steel cable” is still not exactly an engineering marvel. I think the system as whole is an interesting and an innovative solution to a problem. The structural engineering that goes into it though is about as basic as it gets.

@@Jcreek201 The neat features are not apparent in this video (the detailed video was posted 10 months ago). In flash flood, the build up of plastic would cause most existing catchers to fail (including ones with steel piles) but reinforcing further wasn't practical. The top of this intercept will flip slightly when the load is too much to allow overflow to go pass it but still hold on to most of the plastic, which is the biggest improvement. And it's deployed in 2 layers to capture more. It's not over engineered in strength, but very practical and tailored to the problem/ failure points/ operational needs.

More soul crushing for me... 😔

True. Why is the trash in the river in the first place? Bottles should have a significant return fee (Flaschenpfand) over there as well. And plastic bags banned.

@@alis49281 Why? Poverty.

@@Bob_Adkins Here we have poor people who collect trash bottles. 0,25 € for each. With 10 bottles you can buy ingredients for a meal or a whole bread for several days of dinner. It might seem the opposite at first, but our system makes bottle and can collection a viable job for the poorest of the poor. Anyone can do it. Even kids treat bottles like treasure because they trade them for sweets. So why is that not a model for the whole world? When you can't prevent trash, then at least make sure it is not thrown into nature. And money is a motivation that works.

@@alis49281 The recycling programs you enjoy in Europe and that we do, here in North America, that encourage people to collect and return plastics and aluminium/steel cans to recycling depots, isn't available in many Central American countries-particularly in Guatamala. Even the provision of garbage collection in rural communities is lacking because there is no tax base, to speak of, to draw the funds from the community to pay for garbage removal and disposal. You can't milk and empty coconut. I suggest you learn something of how many other countries are governed, particularly poorer countries. Not everyone on the planet enjoys the benefits of civil society. There's a reason why there are hordes of Central and South American economic refugees flocking to the U.S. border (or African/Middle-Eastern economic refugees flocking into Europe).

Yes

It is on their RU-vid-Shorts. Hopefully they will upload a full video, but in the meantime we can see the shorts :)

I recall NOAA estimated 8 million tones a year in 2017, plus or minus 50%. Surprisingly I am no longer able to find that NOAA page on-line, or could not the last time I looked.

this river is particularly bad just because of the location of the city dump, upstream and right next to the river (on a valley cliff but that means little with rain)

90% of ocean trash comes from just 10 rivers. 50% alone comes from the Yangtze River. All of North America and Europe combined contribute to only 5% of ocean plastics.

The initial project was to clean the pacific patch but then seeing that that would be the equivalent of putting a band aid on the issue they came up with the river interceptors and located them in the biggest trash sources (rivers) that fill the patch in the first place, preventing the trash from getting to the ocan

A terrible indictment on us as a species.

Can you post videos of your project?

@@RipperRU-vidOfficial I was thinking about doing so, just to try to motivate people to do the same, but it would be too much time consuming. Every bit of energy is spent on working on it unfortunately. Maybe later when its done :)

Done, 30 years ago, already !

Agreed. That's awesome on you @StayPrimal and @TheOceanCleanup

good job, here have a cookie 🍪

People still dump their trash in the river in those regions. They dont care.

Exactly!

You can follow this project on their website, they have photos. "trash is removed from the Interceptor Barricade using excavators, it is weighed on-site to determine the total catch quantity and passed to local partners and waste management authorities for processing".

Pimple popping videos are more popular than this is.

So what?

Fo to their channel. There are videos of earlier extractions on this river

Too stupid to clean up their own trash Guatemala so you know they're using this water as drinking water too

Yea it seems to be coming from a direct source

Where will they take the rubbish?.... back to the dump upriver, who will probably charge them a fee for using the facility.... rinse and repeat, now they have a constant flow of money with no incentive to fix the problem.

i'm still baffled about why they put the city dump that close to the river

Oh, this wasn’t even in the US?

Our planet needs us.

The planet will exist before and after everything you see today.

@@EternallyGod Truth, Debbie Downer!

@@EternallyGodalso not totally true, the sun will gobble the earth up. So just negativity for no reason ig

These countries could also just not dump hundreds of trucks of garbage into the water every hour as well

They are not spreading Peace, they are cleaning the ocean. Two things different.

yes.

A little early for that.

Peace prize? You want the put them on equal level with guys like Obama?

I think this is more of a Nobel Prize category than a Nobel Peace Prize. But I certainly agree with your sentiment 100%

Nobel peace prizes are full of shit. Every us president that "won" one is also guilty of unimaginable war crimes.

Yes for every small patch those boats retrieve guzzling up boatloads (lol) of diesel, the seas receive 10 additional large patches like these yearly. Look at the amount captured in this first flood. It far exceeds the amount captured seen in the last boat trip. And this river does this several times a year. And then there are many more rivers doing the same. That is primarily why the ocean cleanup is considered a joke amongst many. Why capture 10 tons if rivers spew 100s of tons of garbage into the river each year? It's a loosing battle. Now I do understand the need to develop technology to aid in the cleanup once the dumping stops, but until that time arises ..... well it's a nice way to make money I guess :)

The garbage patch is a million times the size of what you saw on this video. This is a drop in the bucket, but it is indeed the best first step - to stop dumping more in.

Its satisfying and depressing at the same time.

I kept waiting for it to stop...terrifying this is from one river in one city

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Third world countries need to pay the bill of cleaning everything.

First world countries need to stop producing all this trash and sending it there

@@mds7569 You can't pay for it when your making $100 a month. Developed countries should clean up their own garbage instead of exporting it to places like this.

@@daviesmia that maybe some of the problem, but I believe they said in a different video that there is no standardized trash collection of the country. Plus they had built a landfill on the side of the river, so during heavy rains trash from the landfill contributes to the issue. This is the first step in a long road of fixing the core problem with a 3rd world country.

@@daviesmia Developed countries doing what?? I see indians using and throwing stuff on the roads and rivers, thailandes people too, vietnamese too, chinese people same shit, even latin america doesn't do better. Please, stfu, we deal our own garbage alone.

This is not the solution. It's a stop gap to a long term solution

@@againstthegrain147yes, but that gives us much more time to fix the problem, and will bring MUCH needed awareness to the problem. That way, the people of the world will see this and take some form of action, even if it takes a bit due to the natural apathy of society.

I have been seeing this kind of footage for at least 15 years now. I even saw a video clip of garbage trucks dumping their waste directly into a fast flowing river. Trust me, it's very believable and very much local corruption that makes it possible. And if history is anything to learn from, these types of systems will not be adopted for a very looooong time. I know, harsh statement, but human greed is a thing.

I agree. Actually care about the planet with ACTION and not just words and taxes, like our Canadian politicians.

The plastic comes from thousands of "Mine doesn't matter". Animals do the same with their garbage, they drop it where ever. The problem is MANKIND'S plastic, it doesn't rot or biodegrade.

The only way we stop this is by finding an alternative to plastics and imposing hefty fines on companies who rely on single use plastics for profit.

the city dump is right up the river, _right next to the river_ terrible choices of infrastructure are the root of this river's issues, with only secondary issues of areas with no garbage service and illegal dumping (coin toss of broke or cheapskate)

@@turnergI don’t mind donating because it’s such important work, but those companies you mentioned should be forced to fund the Ocean Cleanup instead of us.

@@lessthanbrilliant3672 hence the "hefty fines for manufacturing plastics for profits"

Had seen the previous one as well. Wonderful that they keep on progressively engineering, learning from past difficulties with better more effective designs each time they come across a problem.

This is just a drop in the bucket..

Not a solution!

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A passive extraction system would help eliminate some of the stress put on the barrier, at least initially, and might help prevent some loss down stream. Though i know that they have a 2nd barrier to grab whatever gets through the first.

All this piling up happened in just 90 minutes - small machines aren’t a solution.

​@@turnerglast year they had a 2nd smaller barrier

@@rainertrier4987 who said it should be a "small machine"?

There is a second boom. You can see it in video from last year, when they installed the system. The problem is that there is so much thrash that, inevitably, at some point, it starts to overflow.

Yes, but this is prevention, not cure. The cure has to happen upstream in the river and upstream in the human conscience.

@@timothyball3144 I think we can both agree that local residents seeing the volume of trash they are responsible for could help change their behaviors. Another saying: "Don't let perfect be the enemy of good."

@B2Ag05 It might, but first, they need to see it, and how will they see it? By watching a RU-vid video on their smartphone? There are some programs around that are teaching the youts in poor countries the hows and whys of proper disposal, but if they cannot afford to do the right thing, it's not going to be helpful. Clean-up is important, but it also has to be acknowledged that it's not the cure, but rather, just a band-aid.

@@timothyball3144 the cure I was referring to is their ocean cleanup effort. The prevention is stopping inflows of plastic. We can nitpick and split hairs, but my comment is just fine on its own. Your reply is fine on its own as well.

Yes, but prevention doesn’t come fast. As mentioned in an earlier video the OC people are contacting local governments and other institutions. It is just a very sluggish process, as big changes usually are. Additional to their efforts towards prevention the OC their work ethic is as long as the cause isn’t solved yet we also try to catch as much trash as they can. From the most polluted rivers that is - at least also a step ahead from trash entering the ocean forming the big garbage patches. Also prevention then, not the end of the chain.