#ocean cleanup

[probablyasocialecologist]

In 2012, Dutch teenager Boyan Slat presented a TED Talk on his concept for cleaning up the ocean with simple mechanisms to sweep up all the trash. While scientists and plastics experts cautioned that his ideas were ineffective, Slat’s non-profit the Ocean Cleanup, founded the year after his talk went viral, has gained millions of followers and big-name backers, including Salesforce, Maersk, KIA, and PayPal’s Peter Thiel. But the venture had one major problem: its first two designs didn’t work, despite the group burning through tens of millions of dollars over the course of a decade. The Ocean Cleanup has since pivoted to work with upstream river “interceptors” that are much more efficient at capturing garbage, but its website still prominently features its latest ocean debris “solution”—essentially a trawl fishing net dragged between two boats that has, to date, collected a comparatively miniscule amount of trash. Tech projects like these are more of a curse than a blessing. Even if the Ocean Cleanup one day somehow beats the insurmountable odds and removes all surface-level traces of plastic marine pollution, it’d still be missing the vast majority of waste that sinks to the bottom of the ocean floor, or breaks up into tiny microplastics. While companies like these bring increased attention to the plastics crisis, they’re ultimately flashy gimmicks that lull our public consciousness into thinking a clever gadget can solve a collective-action problem. These projects also allow consumer brands—like Coca-Cola, an official “Global Implementation Partner” of Slat’s group—to greenwash their continued massive plastic production, while lobbying behind-the-scenes against regulations that would actually help the world break its plastic addiction.  “We now know that we can’t start to reduce plastic pollution without a reduction of production,” environmental scientists Imari Walker-Franklin and Jenna Jambeck write in the introduction to their forthcoming study, Plastics. To meaningfully address this crisis and others like it, we need to look upstream, invest in reuse infrastructure, and mandate biodegradable packaging and high material recyclability. At a minimum, we need to start making producers bear the cost for the collection and disposal of their poorly designed goods.

[onyx-turtle]

I've finally started up a Tumblr account and need to build up my fyp brick by brick. The world is going into crisis mode, and what better way to deal with it than make a new social media account? The future is Hemp, environmentally friendly, land back, and free (probs more than that, that's just my focus in life). Hopefully, we'll get through this fam. Lemme know where to go if you see this. I'm still new to navigating Tumblr (I'm almost 30, I'll get it)

[bumblebeeappletree]

Inventor Boyan Slat is on a mission to rid oceans of plastic. His team at The Ocean Cleanup designs and deploys systems that pull trash from the open ocean. Now, he’s stopping the pollution at its source: rivers where plastic is easier to catch, like those in Kingston Harbor, Jamaica.

Each year an estimated four million tons of plastic end up in the world’s oceans, killing thousands of marine creatures and accumulating up the food chain. The plastic gathers in five massive ocean gyres, the largest of which, known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, holds 87,000 tons of trash. After years of research, The Ocean Cleanup has created a system that removes 7000 kilograms of trash from the sea every day and a half; the team aims to remove 90% of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch by 2040.

But plastics keep flowing into the ocean, largely from the world’s polluted rivers. In Jamaica, Boyan’s team has teamed up with Alecia Beaufort and a local group cleaning up their waterways. Together, they’ve deployed a new system to trap plastic at the source as it flows downriver during a storm. Their success has inspired others to join the effort, creating a virtuous cycle of citizen action.

[jonnylovers-in-neverland]

Coldplay with the Ocean Cleanup CEO Boyan Slat in Jakarta | 15.11.2023

The Ocean Cleanup and Coldplay are delighted to announce a renewal of our partnership as part of The Ocean Cleanup’s mission to rid the oceans of plastic. Coldplay teamed up with The Ocean Cleanup in 2018, sponsoring Interceptor 005 and helping us take an early step forward in our campaign to tackle the world’s most polluting rivers. Following the success of Interceptor 005 in Malaysia, supported by Coldplay and given the name ‘Neon Moon I’, we will now deploy a second Interceptor, currently under assembly and destined for the river Cisadane in Jakarta, Indonesia: Interceptor 020, or ‘Neon Moon II’.  Boyan Slat, Founder and CEO of The Ocean Cleanup, and the members of Coldplay announced the renewal together on November 15 as Coldplay prepared to begin the next phase of their record-breaking Music of the Spheres world tour on Wednesday, November 15, in Jakarta. As well as contributing to Interceptor 005, Coldplay has also been screening footage of The Ocean Cleanup’s operations to their fans before their performances – bringing our message to millions of music lovers worldwide. Interceptor 005, together with Interceptor 002, has formed a central part of The Ocean Cleanup’s operations in the river Klang in Malaysia, with over 1 million kilograms prevented from reaching the oceans and helping to contribute to a cleaner environment for the local community. Both The Ocean Cleanup and Coldplay are proud to continue working together to tackle this global challenge with Neon Moon II. “It’s so exciting for us to have Coldplay on board and to be making such a huge impact together against plastic pollution in Asia,” said Boyan Slat, Founder and CEO of The Ocean Cleanup. “We say a massive thanks to Coldplay for their help, and we can’t wait to see Neon Moon II in action and intercepting waste soon.” We are thankful for the financial support of all partners, enabling us to realize this project. The deployment of Interceptor 020 is part of The Ocean Cleanup’s Global Implementation Partnership – find out more about our operation to capture plastic in the Cisadane here.

[kevin-cable-photography]

little news ears https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VMSQeeWvjo&t=3s everyone should work together and share how to save our oceans. News For Kids on Little News Ears #littlenewsears #savetheoceans #plastics #oceanpollution #newsforkids #kidsnews #littlenewsears #nevaehcable

[sennetrip]

Illustration for The World Today about the future of waste and how the earth is drowning in rubbish

[needtoseethisthrough]

This team has accomplished real and positive change to the world's oceans, and their YouTube channel has less than 400k subscribers?

Not only do they share their successes but also share their failures, and they are learning from them and improving all the time.

Their videos and their story are amazing. They show the horrific amount of garbage they are cleaning up. They show us that when humans put their minds together, what was thought to be hopeless and impossible becomes just the opposite.

Please subscribe to this channel. They deserve more subscribers and views than any other YouTuber that is putting their lives on display or doing stupid shit for views.

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[deshima]

I absolutely love these guys. They had an idea that at the time, everybody thought was crazy but they ran with it anyway, and now they are blowing past all expectations and hopes. This is what makes me proud to be dutch.

sources of hope - the ocean cleanup, between its preventative measures in rivers & its extraction of legacy pollution in the pacific, retrieved over 11 million kilograms of plastic this year, which is more than in the previous six years combined. they passed milestones of 10 million & 20 million kilograms removed over the lifetime of the organization within eight months of each other, & they're only planning to keeping scaling up their operations!

Those numbers are amazing!! Shoutout to the Ocean Cleanup, for being awesome as always!!

-via Surfer Magazine, December 20, 2024

[wachinyeya]

Ocean CleanUp Launches Huge System in Pacific Garbage Patch to Clean a Football Field Every 5 Seconds https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/ocean-cleanup-launches-system-3-to-clean-football-field-every-5-seconds/

[creativemedianews]

Global Ocean Cleanup Initiatives

Video taken by “Parley for the Oceans” on July 14 shows a “dense garbage carpet” covering the water in Santo Domingo. Learn about the latest initiatives addressing plastic pollution in our oceans. A wonderful tranquility has taken proprietorship of my entirety soul, like these sweet mornings of spring which I appreciate with my aggregate heart. I am so playful, my costly companion, so ingested…

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Quanto plastica finisce negli oceani ogni giorno? Un’emergenza ambientale globale

Numeri, cause e soluzioni per contrastare l’inquinamento marino

Numeri, cause e soluzioni per contrastare l’inquinamento marino Introduzione Ogni giorno, circa 8 milioni di tonnellate di plastica finiscono negli oceani ogni anno, equivalenti a più di 20.000 tonnellate al giorno. Questo fenomeno rappresenta una delle più gravi emergenze ambientali del nostro tempo, con effetti devastanti sulla vita marina, sugli ecosistemi e, indirettamente, sulla salute…

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Global Ocean Cleanup Initiatives

Video taken by “Parley for the Oceans” on July 14 shows a “dense garbage carpet” covering the water in Santo Domingo. Learn about the latest initiatives addressing plastic pollution in our oceans. A wonderful tranquility has taken proprietorship of my entirety soul, like these sweet mornings of spring which I appreciate with my aggregate heart. I am so playful, my costly companion, so ingested…