The founder and CEO of The Ocean Cleanup lays out the organization’s detailed plans and price tag for ridding the Pacific of floating plastic pollution in a 5-year span.
You can donate to The Ocean Cleanup here:
0:00 Intro
0:30 Boyan Slat’s Announcement at the Press Event
1:21 How Plastic Pollution is Hurting the Environment
1:49 How The Oceans Cleanup’s System 03 Works
3:00 System 03 Ocean Wildlife Saftey Measures
3:24 The Ocean Cleanup’s Estimated Annual CO2 Emissions
4:19 The Ocean Cleanup’s Timeline using Hotspot Hunting
5:59 Boyan Slat’s Call To Action
6:26 Boyan Slat Interview
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@mofosoto
September 15, 2024 at 11:46 am
I like these guys but can’t help to think, how nice of them to come up with a plan to collect $4 Billion for themselves.. I mean, ocean cleanup..
@RikHeijmen
September 15, 2024 at 3:40 pm
Did you not read about the work Boyan has done since he was 15 years old? And just decided to post this baseless and utterly useless comment here?
@bweber9468
September 15, 2024 at 11:54 am
There needs to be a virgin plastic tax in order to offset the cost of plastic recycling. Also, Single use plastics need to be scrapped and redone as biodegradable plastics only.
@boboyu35
September 15, 2024 at 12:34 pm
Not 4 billion , 7.5 billion
@RikHeijmen
September 15, 2024 at 3:44 pm
7.5 billion with the result they have had until now and 10 years. 4 billion if they continue to improve and 5 years. Its called “progress”. Check their documentary, look into it. Then post your informed comment.
@wylerXL
September 15, 2024 at 12:36 pm
if only marine life would help expedite the clean up…
@tcu1099
September 15, 2024 at 12:36 pm
Wish they’d bring the sunglasses back. I lost my pair. 😔
@Desaved
September 15, 2024 at 12:49 pm
Do it NOW! I don’t care how much it costs! We’re saving ourselves in the end!
@toology55
September 15, 2024 at 1:05 pm
We’ll just pollute it again 🫤
@minhlede
September 15, 2024 at 1:15 pm
this man dedicates his life to clean up the ocean since he was a boy. lfg.
@rustyshackle917
September 15, 2024 at 1:33 pm
Feel good stories about bandaid “solutions” that do nothing to address the root of the problem.
@RikHeijmen
September 15, 2024 at 3:37 pm
Posting negative “comments” without any fact checking. The Ocean Cleanup actually has several ‘interceptors’ deployed in the world’s most polluting rivers, mostly in Asia. Results are very promising. Check the full video they jay released. The world is better of with Boyan, for sure. And the world really doesn’t need baseless bs from people like you.
@Benvenjtos
September 15, 2024 at 1:47 pm
Just USA Pacific Ocean or from Alaska to chile?
@Bribri-o5o
September 15, 2024 at 1:57 pm
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A win and a new hope for the fandom.
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@imacuser101
September 15, 2024 at 2:20 pm
need to commercialize this….like use the plastic as fuel to make energy and in turn revenue. then you dont have to worry about donations drying up
@CIAO_MEINS
September 15, 2024 at 2:38 pm
They might use that thing to pick up floating corpses in the near future 🤢
@royalaurastudios3339
September 15, 2024 at 3:08 pm
I have been talking about this for years and finally people trying to get things done. One world and when it is gone so are we.
@mattperrin1208
September 15, 2024 at 3:55 pm
7.5 billion isnt staggering for a 10 yr roi. for an ocean that gives us TRILLIONS of dollars a year. dummie logic with how they introduced that.
@m.e.p.r
September 15, 2024 at 3:55 pm
Just give him the money – we need people and systems like this. I hope governments get behind this.
@Vedrajrm
September 15, 2024 at 4:18 pm
What a waste of money filling the board members pockets.
If water is leaking from a Tap on to your kitchen floor, you don’t spend on cleaning up the water
You spend on fixing the tap.
This is just green washing and dumb people are falling for it.
@honewhetstone1732
September 15, 2024 at 4:20 pm
Humanity, here’s your new leader.
@PigRipperLAW
September 15, 2024 at 5:12 pm
Getting Tesla and Theranose vibes here.
Guessing all the figures in time and cost are totally wrong and it probably has fatal flaws. Time will tell.
@eadanlin
September 15, 2024 at 5:18 pm
I donated to them every month. Glad they are making an impact
@Wiruebehs
September 15, 2024 at 6:09 pm
7 billion to clean that up wtf? That seems a bit high.
@ruthwik081
September 16, 2024 at 1:05 pm
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) is estimated to be around 1.6 million square kilometers in size, which is about twice the size of Texas or three times the size of France.
@Nugemart
September 15, 2024 at 6:27 pm
Come on Elon, open your wallet buddy…
@thunderdemonlover
September 15, 2024 at 7:44 pm
May Get This Trash 🗑️ For My Package 📦 And Hardware. This city. 🏙️.Buy 😅😊Trash
@laboose6598
September 15, 2024 at 7:47 pm
and what about micro-plastics?
@thunderdemonlover
September 15, 2024 at 7:52 pm
Please Add UN Climate Change Destination Roadmap .
@CHRISTO_0101
September 15, 2024 at 10:20 pm
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@Rob-p2c
September 15, 2024 at 10:22 pm
Can someone tell me where the garbage patch came from? Who dumped all that garbage?
@MangoIsLove55
September 16, 2024 at 5:16 am
dumped in rivers and from there it goes into the oceans because rivers end up in oceans and gets concentrated because of ocean currents
@stanlucaks
September 15, 2024 at 10:23 pm
This will never work as you clean up the Chinese will pollute the ocean more. How are you ever gonna clean it up when all the countries are not getting together and making the same pledges
@esteeeeeeeev
September 15, 2024 at 10:31 pm
I have an idea that no one will like implement the trash in movies show it like in water related movies or nature movies all types of movies to wake us up this is truely a worldwide problem
@Words7722
September 15, 2024 at 10:42 pm
Please give him the Novel Prize. PERIOD
@Clove_Parma
September 16, 2024 at 5:01 pm
Typo to correct 🙂
@jaredsalazarofficial
September 15, 2024 at 11:28 pm
Wow, that’s cheaper than what i expected. 😮
@heyo638
September 15, 2024 at 11:42 pm
Each continent should have atleast 10 pair of cleanup vessels of their own to do this, minimum.
@TheOnlyName
September 16, 2024 at 1:33 am
Truly amazing work, this is where money should be going!
@oOCentralSunOo
September 16, 2024 at 1:56 am
Create a plastic tax on virgin plastics to fund it.
@marianf25
September 16, 2024 at 4:14 am
Really nice initiative that gives me hope. 4B is nothing at this scale. Moving from 10 years to 5 it’s also a huge improvement. In 10 years a large part of that plastic will already be on the ocean floor at best or in our food.
@tekspec
September 16, 2024 at 5:30 am
money is fake, this problem is real. GET IT DONE!
@urbanstrencan
September 16, 2024 at 5:42 am
This project is just amazing, we need to make it happen and we need more solutions like this to clean our waters 🙏❤
@JoeyBlogs007
September 16, 2024 at 7:34 am
3:12 Great concept, but I’m not sure about the sea creatres could easily swim out of the way part, given it’s 2.5 km accross. That said, it does have safety exits it seems and overall perhaps the benefits outweigh the costs to sea life.
@JohnWindberg
September 16, 2024 at 10:27 am
now we should bill the plastics industry for the cleanup
@JohnWindberg
September 16, 2024 at 10:28 am
perhaps then, they would finally create reasonable, compostable plastics
@JJs_playground
September 16, 2024 at 1:27 pm
Nestle, Coca-Cola, Pepsi and johnson & Johnson should pay for this.
Governments of the world, please put pressure on the major plastic polluters to pay for this. They are literally killing us.
@justinmas299
September 16, 2024 at 2:05 pm
Staggering? You clown, mind your language. That is chump change on a planetary scale, there are a hundred private citizens that could write that check today.
@locholoco
September 16, 2024 at 5:30 pm
This guy is being around with the same pitch… asking for $$ and delivering nothing.. now it is in the billions!! hasn’t anybody chk this?
@Fellolkek
September 16, 2024 at 6:28 pm
US military could find this money in their couch cushions from 1 year of operations.
@cattigereyes1
September 16, 2024 at 8:03 pm
Sorry the oceans full of microplastics. Not something we can remove. Feel better humans? Basically you’re screwed! Enjoy fools
@gatodario
September 16, 2024 at 9:01 pm
So, instead of tackling the root cause, polluting industries that produce single use plastics and non-biodegradable materials the solution is to create a new market with venture capital to clean up at the end of the chain. That’s rich 🤡