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@brazilchem
April 9, 2024 at 1:38 pm
It’s been years that it’s proven to have no impact at all. Are these videos about maintaining the hype so that the NGO goes on receiving funding year after year?
@randomjasmicisrandom
April 9, 2024 at 2:02 pm
The funding that they spend on scientific exploration of our oceans and rivers, that is published and given free for other scientists to use, and to maintain the two vessels at sea pulling the collection system? That funding? I know,it’s brilliant isn’t it. I’m interested on what you base your idea that there is no impact at all, given that this is still the development phase.
@BoomerPlusUltra
April 9, 2024 at 1:41 pm
Awesome!!!
@Grasshopper.80
April 9, 2024 at 1:42 pm
Ten years? What about the other oceans?
@jamalharrison4695
April 9, 2024 at 5:24 pm
You’re right it’s going to take way too long. Might as well simply give up and not do it I guess
@cavalierdecoupe
April 9, 2024 at 1:44 pm
Imagine if all nations of the world contributed
@dmail44
April 9, 2024 at 1:53 pm
You and your football field measurements
@knallkopf-io2vf
April 9, 2024 at 1:53 pm
Not even 1 % of plastic in the ocean floats on the sea. Over 99 % is not even catchable by these systems… So it makes the ocean prettier to look at, but the problem for the ecosystem (for us) remains!
@randomjasmicisrandom
April 9, 2024 at 1:59 pm
That is why the system of barges stopping the plastic getting out to the ocean in the first place is so important.
@willisouthside
April 9, 2024 at 2:02 pm
You have to wonder what country or continent has contributed the most to that mass of garbage on the west coast.
@tvm73836
April 9, 2024 at 2:29 pm
Inspiring company and founder doing inspired work! Friend of humanity
@williamelkington5430
April 9, 2024 at 2:38 pm
Very cool!
@SlackJones1
April 9, 2024 at 3:46 pm
I think the plastics industry should be taxed to pay for such efforts.
@grziggy
April 9, 2024 at 4:30 pm
Hey I know a guy that can turn that plastic into crude oil and natural gas. Holla at naturejab_
@sordidloam
April 9, 2024 at 4:59 pm
Hats off to these guys making this possible
@corporealundead
April 9, 2024 at 5:10 pm
This guy deserves all of Elon Musk’s money.
@corporealundead
April 9, 2024 at 5:10 pm
Shame on you Thailand.
@jfjoubertquebec
April 9, 2024 at 5:39 pm
We could use less plastic to do even better.
@user-in6ip8sb5v
April 9, 2024 at 5:48 pm
Thank you so much
@kharris0465
April 9, 2024 at 6:05 pm
And they always will. The more plastic they take out of the ocean, the more they will need to take out of the ocean.
@JustPlayingGames247
April 9, 2024 at 6:05 pm
cost about 10k a day for one ship to run so how much oil we burning to catch a bit of plastic ????♂
@stevenm7211
April 9, 2024 at 6:32 pm
So, they get some plastic out of the ocean and recycle it into a new product that is then dumped in the ocean for them to clean it out again. You win twice brother, It’s good biz.
@kuztomix
April 9, 2024 at 7:34 pm
JUST… STOP… BUYING… CRAAAAP !
@michaelmartin178
April 9, 2024 at 7:54 pm
Tax the companies that sell the plastic, at the end of the day the companies will just add that tax on to the product. So the companies will not being paying it , you will !!!!!’ I can’t believe people don’t understand that concept
@dogecoinx3093
April 9, 2024 at 8:48 pm
wow cool but did he just say twice the size of texas
@dogecoinx3093
April 9, 2024 at 8:50 pm
this is awesome
@dogecoinx3093
April 9, 2024 at 8:53 pm
turn the plasic into something that will not return to the ocean.
@armastus1474
April 9, 2024 at 8:55 pm
How can we bring this to the Philippines? Place is nasty and riddled with plastic
@joependleton6293
April 10, 2024 at 12:11 pm
He’s widened the search for discarded plastic, in international waters – Our world has history, don’t mess it up… well done Ocean Cleanup ???????? ???? ????????
@bartroberts1514
April 10, 2024 at 12:32 pm
Wonder how much fuel is burned by those ships and their support vessels per tonne of plastic recovered?
@winifredclarke1977
April 10, 2024 at 12:57 pm
God bless you all who are actually willing to do about the ocean poisoning and not just talking about.
Your job is very important.
Thank you guys ????????????????????????❤❤❤
@SpeedyCorky
April 10, 2024 at 1:13 pm
2km wide , eh?
so that kinda like trying to put out a house fire with a squirt gun. good effort, but not gonna make a difference
@scstudios8
April 10, 2024 at 1:13 pm
If there was just a couple ship loads of trash in one spot on the ocean, this would be great. What is the diesel fuel to trash ratio here? What a joke. I bet its near 1 to 1. For every volume of plastic it requires the same amount of fuel.
@stereothrilla8374
April 10, 2024 at 1:36 pm
Ok, are we just going to mention that the ocean guy’s name is “Buoyant Slat”!?!?????????????
@helmutzollner5496
April 10, 2024 at 2:05 pm
A great project that raises lots of cash for eco warriors. Well 45t per year is better than 6t. So this year they might do a hundred furry tons. That will give them a life time job.
@JSDudeca
April 10, 2024 at 2:57 pm
What are those boats running on? Is it biofuel?
@melbournechugging2999
April 10, 2024 at 2:59 pm
Dump it all in hawaii
@thelammas8283
April 10, 2024 at 3:22 pm
Good for you Sir. Thank you.
@GamerplayerWT
April 10, 2024 at 3:32 pm
The frightening thing is how much junk sinks to the bottom of the oceans.
@svomily3492
April 10, 2024 at 4:33 pm
I sailed northbound through eastern end of the garbage patch in 2018. I was approximately 600 miles off the California coast. It was three days of the most depressing experience I’ve experienced in nature. Thank You So very much for your efforts!
@tomtompkins6779
April 10, 2024 at 4:47 pm
It’s saddening to see that none of the companies that profit from all that plastic all of the soft drink companies all over the packaging companies all of the petroleum companies that supply the raw materials all of the companies that make the plastics and process them nobody puts a dime in to this while they make billions upon billions of dollars in profits.
@AngryAmericanWizard
April 10, 2024 at 5:20 pm
Cool, but we need to prevent it from getting there in the first place. Reduce single use plastics as much as possible, issue deposits on them to get them returned to a sorting facility so they can be recycled or repurposed or properly disposed of.
@derek-64
April 10, 2024 at 5:49 pm
It’s one thing to clean up the waste but we should try and work communities to try and find alternate solutions so we can try to prevent waste from getting into the rivers, streams, and oceans. Not only would it clean up the water but it would help clean those areas, especially rural areas where trash is abundant and we can try to make it cleaner and healthier for them as well.
@drinny26
April 10, 2024 at 6:13 pm
I live near the Long Island sound in New York. So much plastic in the water and washing up on little islands. It’s so sad. Nobody does anything about it. Fisherman just leave all their trash to blow into the water. Nobody cares.
@fw1421
April 10, 2024 at 6:32 pm
Great thing to do for our oceans but if the countries that dump their trash don’t stop it’s pissing in the wind.
@De4dCert
April 10, 2024 at 7:40 pm
Incredible thank the Ocean Cleanup team for helping save our planet.
@dannyarcher6370
April 10, 2024 at 7:49 pm
It’s rare that an eco-startup doesn’t feel like a money-grab scam. This is one of them.
@BobsHomesteadliving
April 10, 2024 at 8:10 pm
How much CO2 are the two ships pulling the net making. None of these renewable ideas are ever actually functional in The logical sense.
@gK-ih2ct
April 10, 2024 at 8:15 pm
The oil companies that make plastic should be responsible to pay for this!
@Mr.Mitch1111
April 10, 2024 at 8:22 pm
Thank you to those involved in this task. This is a World Benefit project and deserves funding at whatever level the need (i.e. the amount of plastic tonnage appearing in our oceans each year). I can only hope there is a concurrent effort to prevent the plastic entering the natural world in the first place.
@MrSoldier13
April 10, 2024 at 8:51 pm
hopefully government they operate on donate money to the group and help in any way
@arminhanik7229
April 10, 2024 at 9:00 pm
Like sitting beside a bathtub, the faucet running at full power, and you got a tiny tiny spoon, with which you take out a little water every hour and throw it into a leaking bucket on top of the bathtub.
And then you make a youtube video so ppl think that SOMETHING GETS DONE after all.
@coachandi2292
April 10, 2024 at 9:14 pm
Looks like most of the plastics are from fishing vessels…ugh…