This year, The Ocean Cleanup removed11.5 million kilos of trashfrom oceans and rivers. This total surpasses the amount collected in all previous years combined. In April, we celebrated a significant milestone:10 million kg of trash extracted. This achievement was the result of 6 years of river ...
What will we do with the trash?Waste Management and Recycling Giving Value to Waste Since the beginning of The Ocean Cleanup®, we have always planned to do something valuable with the plastic we clean up. We must keep this plastic from entering the environment again – either by creating...
VICTORIA, Canada (Reuters) - Docked at a Canadian port, crew members returned from a test run of the Ocean Cleanup's system to rid the Pacific of plastic trash were thrilled by the meager results — even as marine scientists and other ocean experts doubted the effort could succe...
When Howitt returns home to New Zealand half a world away, his heart sinks when he sees how much trash and other refuse is also washing up on its geographically isolated, and once pristine, 15,000-kilometer (9,300-mile) coastline. Many people might merely shr...
What is the primary goal of Boyan Slat's Ocean Cleanup project? To create new marine habitats To develop new types of plastics To increase fish populations To rid the world's waters of plastic trash 2. Multiple Choice 30 sec 1 pt What is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? A locatio...
All images courtesy of The Ocean Cleanup The Interceptor is the first scalable solution to intercept river plastic pollution and can be deployed around the world. It is capable of extracting 50,000kg of trash per day – even reaching 100,000kg per day under optimised conditions. ...
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The Ocean Cleanup is cleaning up floating plastics caught swirling in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a plastic accumulation zone with over 100,000,000 kilograms of plastic. Learn more Intercepting inrivers To clean the oceans, we also need to stop new trash from flowing into them. By tacklin...
Or maybe the petroleum and plastic industries are too busy ridding the world of microplastics, forever chemicals and thwarting global warming to bother with their trash in the ocean, right? Advertisement Paid Content Insights on Labor and Employment Law ...
there for the launch of The Ocean Cleanup’sfirst ocean cleanup system, which was deployed from San Francisco Bay on a bold mission to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. As of June 3, 2022, The Ocean Cleanup has removed more than 1.2M kg of trash from oceans and rivers world...