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The Ocean Cleanup Deploys First Interceptor in California

After years of planning, the Dutch nonprofit The Ocean Cleanup, famous for cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, and for stopping plastic pollution from flowing down rivers and into the ocean, has struck a deal with Los Angeles County to install Interceptor 007 in Ballona Creek. 0:00 Intro 0:45 Interceptor 007 1:35 The Ocean…

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After years of planning, the Dutch nonprofit The Ocean Cleanup, famous for cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, and for stopping plastic pollution from flowing down rivers and into the ocean, has struck a deal with Los Angeles County to install Interceptor 007 in Ballona Creek.

0:00 Intro
0:45 Interceptor 007
1:35 The Ocean Cleanup’s Checkpoint 2022 live stream
2:35 How the Interceptors work
4:17 The Ocean Cleanup’s portfolio of river Interceptors
4:32 System 002
5:07 System 03
6:20 The Ocean Cleanup’s plan for Interceptors on 1,000 Rivers
6:50 How you can help the cleanup
7:16 James Bond themed outro

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Boyan Slat talks up his latest invention, The Interceptor
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36 Comments

  1. Yojansel Cuevas

    October 10, 2022 at 2:53 pm

    There’s still time to help our planet ❤️, in my case me and my coworkers are gonna pick up garbage in some parks next week

  2. Fred Montgomery

    October 10, 2022 at 2:56 pm

    Sad that humans pollute so much!

  3. Ricky Howard

    October 10, 2022 at 2:57 pm

    Thank you CNET and thank you LA you guys are doing God’s work🥰🥰🙌🙌

  4. Rob

    October 10, 2022 at 3:16 pm

    I wonder how many of these vessels would be needed to clean up India?

  5. David Pearls

    October 10, 2022 at 3:27 pm

    But you need to go to the source and stop these countries from continuing to dump plastics. If not, we will be back to the same place in a number of years.

  6. estonianman

    October 10, 2022 at 3:32 pm

    They need to install a land based version for Los Angeles

  7. xxnike629xx

    October 10, 2022 at 4:05 pm

    This is great news. I think they should work on smaller scale versions to install in cities and even bigger ones to clean up the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.

    • Buck Daman

      October 10, 2022 at 5:16 pm

      You didn’t watch this video at all

  8. bpenaval

    October 10, 2022 at 4:05 pm

    This is great! I am glad people are doing something about it. Sadly though, this is a band aid to the real problems which is the constant consumption of one-time use products. Consumerism is not necessarily bad, but in this case, we can clearly see the consequences of our unchecked consumerism. More importantly, we need to hold companies accountable as they are the source of the problem; they need to innovate. All the blame cannot be on the consumer when the consumer has no choice other than to buy the single use items. Also, recycling is not very efficient (at least today) and it enables further unchecked consumption. Hopefully, we can tackle the real problem instead of the symptoms before it is too late.

  9. penguin272

    October 10, 2022 at 4:21 pm

    What a great development and sad that we need it. They indeed do a great job getting the world’s rubbish out of the oceans

  10. iaronbautista

    October 10, 2022 at 4:23 pm

    Please install it in the Philippines

  11. Ray Beaulier

    October 10, 2022 at 4:24 pm

    Sharing this and spreading the word!! 👏 We can make a difference!

    • CNET

      October 10, 2022 at 4:28 pm

      Please do!

  12. Rajesh Tambe

    October 10, 2022 at 4:28 pm

    Nice concept for also mega cities

  13. ItzEagleT

    October 10, 2022 at 4:30 pm

    ☺️

  14. Dominique M

    October 10, 2022 at 4:34 pm

    This is so fascinating 👏

  15. Rocky W

    October 10, 2022 at 4:48 pm

    They should have left 007 in Long Beach at the end of the LA river, big contributor to sea junk and port polution

  16. Vishnu L Divakaran

    October 10, 2022 at 5:32 pm

    India badly needs this , the river cleanup system

  17. AtlasMoon

    October 10, 2022 at 6:01 pm

    that’s great i hope it makes a difference and this isn’t just a puff piece just bc it looks cool

    • Lusiøn

      October 10, 2022 at 9:38 pm

      Check The Ocean Cleanup on Youtube, it is most definitely going to make a difference.

  18. P Bean

    October 10, 2022 at 6:23 pm

    Technology benefitting the ocean at it best!!!

  19. Jerick R

    October 10, 2022 at 6:52 pm

    Need a cleanup of the people that are making all this trash and dumping it wrongly! Shame on criminals!!

  20. The Transformation Channel

    October 10, 2022 at 6:54 pm

    If we could replicate this technology like Star Trek does with their technology we could have an army of these things in no time.

  21. TranceXZero

    October 10, 2022 at 8:37 pm

    Most importantly, does this Interceptor like it’s drinks shaken or stirred?

  22. Keith White

    October 10, 2022 at 8:49 pm

    Amazing work ocean cleanup 👍😊

  23. TheTanman412

    October 11, 2022 at 12:02 am

    Yes!!! Put these EVERYWHERE. Why aren’t all the billionaires funding this?

  24. obi-wan kenobi

    October 11, 2022 at 1:10 am

    commiefornia

  25. Johnathan Pratt

    October 11, 2022 at 1:30 am

    Gojira sang, they listened.

    Plastic bag in the sea!!!

  26. Andrew Abbott

    October 11, 2022 at 1:41 am

    Needed but doesn’t solve the problem of plastic overproduction or how people litter. 🙁

  27. Daily Danks

    October 11, 2022 at 3:47 am

    Soooo cool. All respect to the clean up crews! You all are very appreciated 💯💯👍😁👍

  28. Doug Grinbergs

    October 11, 2022 at 8:22 am

    1000 rivers – long way to go…

  29. Knight X

    October 11, 2022 at 10:10 am

    Let’s support them ❤❤❤💕

  30. Simplistically Digital

    October 11, 2022 at 11:51 am

    Love this! 🎉

  31. Peter Wissemann

    October 11, 2022 at 12:23 pm

    Hang on… why tf would u hold out on something we need just to make it a stunt? Tf is wrong with people… just put it out there and let’s clean!

  32. Av8rMark

    October 11, 2022 at 12:42 pm

    I wonder if this is actually effective, or just a bunch of hot air like most other “green” initiatives.

  33. trebor robert

    October 11, 2022 at 1:40 pm

    countries on making war machines should learn from this initiative

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