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the project website

https://theoceancleanup.com/


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Trash accumulates in five ocean garbage patches, the largest one being the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, located between Hawaii and California. If left to circulate, the plastic will impact our ecosystems, health, and economies. Solving it requires a combination of closing the source, and cleaning up what has already accumulated in the ocean.

The ocean is big. Cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch using conventional methods – vessels and nets – would take thousands of years and tens of billions of dollars to complete. After fleets of The Ocean Cleanup systems are deployed into every ocean gyre, combined with source reduction, The Ocean Cleanup projects to be able to remove 90% of ocean plastic by 2040.
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The first experimental catch this year with revised method

"That’s A Big A** Catch"

The Ocean Cleanup
27 Sept 2021

The crew offshore in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch achieved our largest ocean plastic catch to date in a single extraction with System 002 on September 22nd 2021. This load amounts to 3.8 tons and concludes the last short test of the campaign.

The next weeks will see the crew putting the system to longer tests, potentially harvesting significantly more. While we look forward to bigger catches, the reactions of the crew members as the deck gets filled with trash are already an indication of how close we are to proving the capacity and efficiency of our latest system.


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A Great day for the Oceans - System 002 Proof of Technology Press Conference

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21 Oct 2021

On October 20, 2021, we gathered members of the press in Victoria Harbour to announce we achieved proof of technology with System 002, after having succesfully completed our test campaign in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. With this confirmation, we will immediately return to the infamous gyre to start cleaning the ocean’s largest accumulation of plastic debris.

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The Ocean Cleanup | Dear Earth

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23 Oct 2021

Boyan Slat discusses what we need to do to clean the world’s oceans of plastic. It’s all part of the Dear Earth special; an epic global celebration of our planet and what we need to do to slow climate change. Sprinkled with musical performances, Dear Earth also contains well-known climate activists, creators, and celebs who will all share ways to make our lives more sustainable.


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Going small cause much waste originates in small rivers too










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Very cool!
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Installing Interceptor 007 in Los Angeles County | The Ocean Cleanup

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21 Nov 2022

In October 2022, we deployed the USA's first Interceptor in Ballona Creek, LA County. Here’s a look behind the scenes at how this deployment was brought to life as crew members, municipal leaders, and partners share their reactions.
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a first major landbased cleanup project in Guatemala

uses a modified set of two barriers, the trial last year with a single barrier failed under the burden when the seasonal flash flood hit.

the river drains all garbage of the Guatemala's Rio Motagua Basin into the Caribbean. A tributary to the river starts in Guatemala city and drains their garbage downriver.


ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motagua_River



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“This Was the First Step of System 03”

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6 Oct 2023

System 03 has completed its first journey to the GPGP and is bringing home over 45 tons of plastic. See up close as our crew use in-the-field modeling data to hunt plastic hotspots across the Pacific, while we test our new Marine Animal Safety Hatch to make sure we’re only catching plastic - not fish.
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This planet will not miss us.
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Bububut ... we're not going anywhere until we violate the speed limit of light, which isn't very probable at the present time.

And we're Earthlings. We make mistakes, and then we correct them. We're going to have to correct what we've done to the planet, but it's correctable. I'm an optimist, and I believe in homo sapiens. We'll clean up the mess, find a way to engineer our climate, and maybe someday make enough progress to relocate to a better neighborhood. We have plenty of time before the Sun runs out of hydrogen.
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Using Satellites to Detect Plastic From Space | The Ocean Cleanup

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10 Jan 2024

Locating accumulations of plastic in the ocean is the first step in cleaning it up - but hunting plastic at sea is costly and resource-intensive.

Scientists are working on a new way to find these hotspots: using hyperspectral satellites to detect 'plastic fingerprints' from space. We have now published an important hyperspectral dataset in collaboration with researchers from the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Hawaii'i Pacific University, and the University of the Aegean and funded by the European Space Agency.

Hyperspectral sensors can find plastic from orbit. But how exactly does it work, and what are the challenges? Robin de Vries, Researcher at The Ocean Cleanup, talks us through it, shows how this cutting-edge dataset was collected, and explains how the dataset has been made available open-access to aid the global push to eliminate ocean plastic pollution.

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Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:26 Why use technology to detect plastic from space?
00:50 About the SPOTS (Spectral Properties Of Submerged and Biofouled Marine Plastic Litter) project - sample sets, measurement tool
02:44 Testing in the real environment:
03:49 Study outcome

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Read the study here https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/15 ... -2023.html

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KINGSTON, JAMAICA: THE FIRST INTERCEPTOR CITY

26 January 2024

The Ocean Cleanup has now deployed seven Interceptors in the Jamaican capital, completing the first phase of our joint project to eliminate plastic pollution in Kingston Harbour. 2024 will see 4 more Interceptors arrive in Kingston, this time focusing on Hunts Bay, and all aimed at enabling the transformation of the city’s waterways while reducing plastic emissions into the Caribbean Sea.

The iconic city of Kingston: home to legendary music, a cultural heritage second to none – and one of the world’s largest natural harbors.

The Ocean Cleanup has partnered with Clean Harbours Jamaica and the GraceKennedy Foundation to deploy a range of Interceptors throughout the city’s drainage gullies, aiming to prevent an estimated 1000 tons of trash flowing yearly into Kingston Harbour, and further into our shared oceans.

The completion of this first stage marks a key step forward for our joint project in Jamaica. Our objective of tackling the main sources of waste into Kingston Harbour has been completed – now we are ready to move to other challenges in this city, starting with Hunts Bay.

The learnings and data we have gathered so far will allow us to optimize our technology and operations, and expand our network of Interceptors across the city to enable the transformation of its waters with local, regional and global benefit.

FROM GULLY TO OCEAN

A Kingston first-timer may wonder: what exactly is a gully?

A gully is a narrow waterway used to drain water away from a city. In Kingston, water is drained into Hunt’s Bay and Kingston Harbour through a system of these gullies and tributaries. While some gullies are large (such as the enormous Sandy Bay gully, which drains an area of over 50 km2 ), others are narrow and located in heavily populated urban areas. During heavy rains, floods can cause gullies to become heavily polluted with plastic and other municipal debris. This waste can cause serious harm to the local environment, and especially to mangroves, which play a crucial role in maintaining the health of the river’s waters and are already under threat. The waste from these gullies flows directly into Kingston Harbour – and on towards the world-famous waters and coastlines of the Caribbean Sea.




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a video matching above Jamaica report


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:( Good luck.
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