How Cheap the Cleanup of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch Truly Is
Yesterday, The Ocean Cleanup vessels returned to San Francisco with tons of trash onboard and exciting news on what it will concretely take to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
The real-world performance of System 03 during the past 12 months has demonstrated that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch can be cleaned in 10 years’ time at a cost of 7.5 billion dollars.
In the meantime, to accelerate the cleanup, we are developing methods to use GPS trackers and directly measure plastic concentrations with drones: hotspot hunting.
We now have the technology to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch; the only thing standing between the world and clean oceans is money. So we call upon the world—the governments, the companies, and the individuals—to make this cleanup happen.
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00:00 Intro
00:43 What is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and why it must be cleaned up
04:18 First iterations of the cleanup systems in the GPGP
06:38 System 03, the first full-scale cleanup system
07:20 System 03 performance to date
08:50 What will it take to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? Tools & costs
13:06 How are we going to accelerate the cleanup using drones and GPS trackers
16:45 The price of cleaning up the GPGP in context
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