unfortunately a lot of places are so underdeveloped that they dont have any landfills or trash systems at all... it will take time for those places to get their shit together
@@Withnail1969 Such a non answer. You just act so enlightened, but have zero proof. `Because it´s all so obvious, otherwise you´re just sheep..` Give me a break. You have nothing noteworthy to add.
Been following this company for a couple years and they deliver on what they say they're trying to do. Long as they have the funding to keep expanding/going. They estimate that ocean patch will be gone by 2030, but could be sooner with broader support!
This is one of the most forward-looking companies I have ever seen. Brilliant engineering to make it this far! You can support their efforts by going to their website.
Unfortunately, most of it is coming from rivers in the Philippines (2020 figures, Visual Capitalist, "Highest Ocean Plastic Waste Polluters", citing a 2021 study by J. Lourens et al.) Modern, well-managed landfills aren't really a thing there yet. China was the top in 2010, but they've done a pretty good job since. The top 3 in 2020 were the Philippines, followed by India, and Malaysia was third.
Yep, it'll be much cheaper dealing w/it this way (stopping it at the source), plus I see nobody talking about how much fish these nets are bringing up.
Don't blame the fossil fuel industry for making plastics we all need and use every day in various products including cars, water bottles, and clothing to name a few, but blame polluters who do not recycle stuff and just dump it anywhere and law makers who are supposed to create and enforce laws and fine polluting offenders. And plastics and synthetics have their place in our lives. For example we have fiberglass boats and plastic kayaks because wooden boats and kayaks require way more maintenance and do not last as long. We have synthetic siding with resins in them for our homes because they can last for an extremely long time, whereas wood siding can develop rot and ant/ termite infestation. Even the shoes all of us wear have synthetic soles and very few of us still use shoes with leather soles that don't last as long.
I went to a fisker karma dealer here in SoCal earlier today. I learned that parts of the Fisker Ocean is made from recycled plastic bottles. Hopefully fisker doesn’t go out of business so they can produce more cars and clean up the ocean at the same time 😉
Aduro Clean Technologies seems to have some serious breakthroughs in recycling mixed and contaminated plastics, at much lower energy energy than the other recycling techniques. I think we need them.
The visible part might be an issue...but we've already lost to my to and nanoplastics which we digest on a daily basis. Not only perfect seeding ground for rogue cells...but also releasing chemicals ... messing up our hormonal systems...which also messes up our feelings and thoughts...and how we feel "in" our bodies...we won't sense a difference...because we will never experience the plastics free version of ourselves...well...at least the generations after 1990 won't...have you seen the amount plastics production rises since 1950...
The Pacific garbage patch (95% of it) comes from three rivers flowing out of China - Yantze, Mekong and Yellow. There is another garbage patch in the Indian Ocean which is from rivers flowing out of India. There is nogarbage patch in the Atlantic between America and Europe because Americans and Europeans don't pollute.
They do pollute but not to the same extent. The infrastructure in China and India and the public attitude towards littering is non existent and abominable. Mind you having seen the amount of litter in the UK many people here have the same awful attitude to disposing rubbish and recycling. It's a global problem which needs governments, citizens and bodies to act. There needs to be legislation forcing companies to make use of recycled material to make it more economically attractive to recycle and to force ie supemarkets to use recyclable packaging. We used to have fruit in paper bags not so long ago.
What needs to happen, and what does not happen, is that each country in the world needs to pay a percentage of the ocean pollution clean up it causes. When you see rivers full of plastics and garbage in the waters in various Asian countries (India (126.5 million kg). China (70.7 million kg). Indonesia (53.3 million kg), and Thailand (22.8 million kg) per year. As well as Brazil (38 million kg), Mexico (3.5 million kg), Egypt (2.5 million kg), and the United States (2.4 million kg) per year in the top 8 polluting nations they need to pay a higher percentage for clean up because these plastics end up floating from rivers into the ocean and micro pellets of plastic end up in our food supply (the fish we eat). In particular India, China, Brazil, and Indonesia with a combined total of 288.5 million kg of plastic pollution in the oceans per year make up more plastic pollution than the rest of the world combined!!!
Unfortunately most of the world doesn't give a sheeet about this huge problems we have now. If we are able to unite we can fix most problems but because of pure greed we refuse to.
Great work Sam bringing this to our attention, I had no idea how grim our Oceans are getting bearing in mind here in the UK our water companies seem to spend most of their time pumping raw sewage into our Rivers and the seas around our coast then paying themselves big bonus payments
Convert the water bottle fee to a non refundable fee and use that money to clean up the plastic pollution. Build a trash facility to cull out the plastic bottles from being incinerated.
I remember watching some american movies and shows on tv about 40 years ago where they showed boats towing many garbage barges heading out to sea to discard contents - over the many years how much would have been discarded into the oceans by the U.S and other nations who allowed similar practices ?
@@jovanleon7 much of that plastic is not recyclable. And i don't think anyone has been able to recycle profitably. Glass and plastic recycling is a joke and that's why there is so much in the ocean.
Great to clean up. Even greater to stop using and discarding so much! Plastics enter the oceans from polluted rivers, lost fishing gear, and from dumping. I wonder what they do with what they collect. We don't know how to use all the waste plastic that actually gets collected in recycling programs. We need plastic that breaks down into non-toxic compounds.
It’s amazing that this problem has existed for years, mostly because it’s not visible from land. Nations will fund conflicts, but so far I’m uncertain of any seriously seeking to fund this endeavor. What’s going on with tho bodies at the World Economics?
All governments are bankrupt. Keep printing more money. But i hear you. If I was a rich philanthropist I would support this. They should approach musk and other rich people.
This is your best video, I don’t believe the climate change hype, it is a natural earth process. However I love this company, and what they are doing. There is no excuse to pollute.
Shareholders of the big brands are to blame. They continue to support these companies despite their poor environmental foot print. Returns ahead of the environment. Simple solution, identify the packaging & put a tax in shareholders' dividends & executive bonuses to pay for the clean up.
As if any other country other than the US is going to pay for that. It would be pretty easy to tell where it comes from by looking at the bottles. I’m sure it’s no mystery. China would be a pretty easy guess.
the garbage patch is actually a very good thing, mother earth currents are acting like a vacuum cleaner rounding up all the debris together, hence making it more easy to clean it up.
The fossile heads are always saying that we need oil to make plastic. Now we have the answer..... reuse it. Or, use plants. Ethanol for cars use 70 times more land than you would use with solar panels, and EV's. So, if we use 69/70 of this land for plastic, we have all the plastic we need.
The solution is to have an ever-increasing carbon tax on new oil and gas, so that collecting and reprocessing this garbage then becomes cost-competitive with using virgin material from oil. This must be done by all developed countries, both as a way of cleaning up the garbage without having to admit to ownership, and as a way of funding the many other adaptations that are needed as we progress to a zero-carbon economy.
@@danharold3087 Glass is good for some products but is wasteful of energy unless a high proportion is recycled. Paper, or no packaging at all, are appropriate for other products. But the Pacific Garbage Patch contains much more than just containers and packaging products, and a 'one size fits all' approach will not work well, either in prevention or cleanup.
@@paladintrueknight Capitalism created the problem, so those who expect capitalism to fix it are delusional. Only by providing an incentive to change behaviour, will we change that behaviour. If you want to call this communism, but provide no mechanism for a solution, your attitude becomes part of the problem.
Go tell the 5 largest plastic dumping countries. www.euronews.com/green/2021/06/22/ranked-the-top-10-countries-that-dump-the-most-plastic-into-the-ocean
Cleaning is a waste of time without first stopping or vastly reducing the amount of trash going into the ocean. Find the sources and bill the countries for cleaning up the garbage based on their contribution to the trash floating in this patch.
It's not China that's the big problem. Most of it is coming from rivers in the Philippines (2020 figures, Visual Capitalist, "Highest Ocean Plastic Waste Polluters", citing a 2021 study by J. Lourens et al.) Up-to-date, well-managed landfills aren't really a thing there yet. China was the top in 2010, but they've done a pretty good job since. The top 3 in 2020 were the Philippines, followed by India, and Malaysia was third.
China may say it is not China but that is propaganda. It is China more than anyone else. The Philippines has a population of just100 million. What is the population of China? Of China plus S E Asia? The Phillipines are a minor contributor to the problem.
You're being played! Where's the photos or videos of this? I can't find any. With that kind of pollution it shouldn't be that difficult to provide the photos.
Kind of pointless when you make more plastic trash than you can clean up. We can already design plastic to rapidly breakdown, however nobody wants to change. Good video though.
I agree this human waste is from humans and all humans should contribute $$$ to clean up this mess so that when we eat the sea food, we don't eat plastic embedded in the fish.
@gordonwardhaugh8266 10 of the rivers around the globe contribute the vast majority of plastic to the world's oceans. Any country we outsourced plastic production to would have ended up in the oceans with current practices around those rivers. Blaming a single country leads to xenophobic reactions.
That's a lot of trash. What could be the source? Not from plastic casually tossed into streams and rivers. It's got to have come from Americas West coast or Chinas East coast. And, it's got to have been on purpose. Maybe that's where all the stuff people put in "recycle" bins go. The pictures you showed kinda' looks like what I've seen at my local recycling center.
Most of it is coming from rivers in the Philippines followed by India (2020 figures, Visual Capitalist, "Highest Ocean Plastic Waste Polluters", citing a 2021 study by J. Lourens et al.).
The Indian plastics end up in a completely different garbage patch located in the Indian Ocean. As for China (pop. >1 billion) being a minor contributor compared to the Phillipines (pop. 100 million), I do not believe it. China lies about everything, respects no rules or laws, and covers up all it's wrongdoings. Look at the Chinese fishing fleets flaunting international laws and violating other countries territorial waters as they overfish everywhere. I am very skeptical of any "study" that seems to cast China in a favorable light (whitewash).
Notice, there is no Atlantic great garbage patch. Who is dumping plastic in the Pacific. We know, China, the Philippines, Vietnam and the other countries that we send our plastic to for recycling and dump it in the ocean.
@@paladintrueknight Small fish tend to live under larger pieces of flotsam which becomes a mini biosphere. The fish will stay close to home until they get crushed in the sock at the end of the net. And if the net openings are large enough for fish to pass through then the net isn't doing the job of capturing the small bits of plastics that do most of the harm.
WTO should create plastic credits and companies that produce products that use plastic either buy these credits or b taxed heavily as in carbon credits
I am shocked that you are still on the air, after your bold proclamation that you would "retire" if Tesla laid off 10% of their workers! Guess they wish they were in the union now!
Correct. The government can’t even do what they’re currently tasked with half right. Just open it up to public donations. It’ll get funded. Might be slower but it’ll work.
This is the greatest boondoggle I have ever seen. The only people who are benefiting are the ones receiving donations and seed money to put on this plastic garbage show. Does anyone know how big the ocean is? This is like a fraction of a hair on one's head. Sending fuel guzzling ships and well-paid crew into the rolly North Pacific with a fragile net to pick up plastic -- and whatever fish and birds -- is a complete 100% waste of time and money. This effort equates to collecting the most expensive plastic ever made! I have sailed through the garbage patch many times. It is unlikely you would ever know you were in the gyre. Most of the larger flotsam is fishing apparatus (nets, floats, line, etc.). The insidious plastic that causes damage is the pinky nail sized bits that break down from larger plastics. These little bits tend to have neutral buoyancy and will float in the water column like a snow globe. But you'd have to look carefully to see them. These kill sea birds and perhaps some sea animals. I have counted an average of 74 visible pieces of plastic per mile off one side of the boat, a 20x20ft section of water (water was calm and I was going slow with sun overhead). Ocean Cleanup has a good river cleanup system but it's not as sexy. That's where you need to start. And then clean up beaches around the world, nature's natural ocean sifter (again, not sexy). And we need to educate and provide garbage collecting resources to 3rd world nations where 90% of the garbage comes from, i.e., Haiti, Burma, Vietnam, etc. EV Viking, I admire your videos, but I would recommend against promoting this (well-intentioned) nonsense because -- when it fails -- it will diminish the importance of doing something.
There on the video; you had seen nets which were only able to capture a small bit of garbage while the backround shows the ocean with little if any garbage floating. This is really just a bunch of loons begging for money. There is very little garbage floating the in the Pacific garbage patch and even less life; what life is there is because of the garbage itself. Very little life exists where there is no light so 1000 miles out from any land in the Pacific its sparce, as there is no food. If you want to spend your money to net garbabe in the middle of know where; please do; just don't get my government or yours to do so; its a waste of money.
There are now 3x times more plastic packaging makers in the USA than there were 5 years ago. Making it in the first place, is the problem. Trying to clean up the mess is a waste of time and money.
“The ocean cleanup” is trying to do the job that every country has ignored, they deserve the credit for doing a great job.
unfortunately a lot of places are so underdeveloped that they dont have any landfills or trash systems at all... it will take time for those places to get their shit together
It cant be done and should not be done. I know it sounds odd to say that but its the truth. You dont understand why, do you?
Why don’t you tell us, oh wise one?
@@Nelis1324 I'll let you work it out.
@@Withnail1969 Such a non answer. You just act so enlightened, but have zero proof. `Because it´s all so obvious, otherwise you´re just sheep..` Give me a break. You have nothing noteworthy to add.
Been following this company for a couple years and they deliver on what they say they're trying to do. Long as they have the funding to keep expanding/going. They estimate that ocean patch will be gone by 2030, but could be sooner with broader support!
Every country should be forced to pay into supporting this.
Every country should have to build the machines to clean this up
Hats off to Charles Moore and Boyan Slat for their pioneering work on this horrendous problem!
Excellent video to bring this issue to a wider audience who might not have heard of The Ocean Cleanup.
This is one of the most forward-looking companies I have ever seen. Brilliant engineering to make it this far! You can support their efforts by going to their website.
Unfortunately, most of it is coming from rivers in the Philippines (2020 figures, Visual Capitalist, "Highest Ocean Plastic Waste Polluters", citing a 2021 study by J. Lourens et al.)
Modern, well-managed landfills aren't really a thing there yet.
China was the top in 2010, but they've done a pretty good job since. The top 3 in 2020 were the Philippines, followed by India, and Malaysia was third.
I support this project, god bless the people involved
Hope the world can work together to solve the plastic problem. New environmental material must be found to replace plastic.
Thanks for reporting on this
Welcome!
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Tons picked up and 150 million to go. We need to stop the source!
Yep, it'll be much cheaper dealing w/it this way (stopping it at the source), plus I see nobody talking about how much fish these nets are bringing up.
@@Torch4Life Some fish are caught, but the nets are dragged slowly and designed with ways for the fish to escape.
Send the bill to the Fossil Fuel Companies who make plastic.
The ones that lied to us about recycling plastic.
tax the people who buy plastic and triple tax the lawmakers who allow plastic bottles to be put into boxes and then sealed in plastic wrap.
Only after you send it to recycling companies who take our money then dump this stuff in east Asia instead of recycling it.
Don't blame the fossil fuel industry for making plastics we all need and use every day in various products including cars, water bottles, and clothing to name a few, but blame polluters who do not recycle stuff and just dump it anywhere and law makers who are supposed to create and enforce laws and fine polluting offenders.
And plastics and synthetics have their place in our lives. For example we have fiberglass boats and plastic kayaks because wooden boats and kayaks require way more maintenance and do not last as long. We have synthetic siding with resins in them for our homes because they can last for an extremely long time, whereas wood siding can develop rot and ant/ termite infestation.
Even the shoes all of us wear have synthetic soles and very few of us still use shoes with leather soles that don't last as long.
You mean in China?
I went to a fisker karma dealer here in SoCal earlier today. I learned that parts of the Fisker Ocean is made from recycled plastic bottles. Hopefully fisker doesn’t go out of business so they can produce more cars and clean up the ocean at the same time 😉
Fisker does NOT build the OCEAN , Magna does.
Fisker is going BANKRUPT in May 2024.
...just marketing...has little to no impact.
This is what we should be funding, instead of foreign wars
Bless you, Sam!
We should build a refinery type factory there and start recycling it
Aduro Clean Technologies seems to have some serious breakthroughs in recycling mixed and contaminated plastics, at much lower energy energy than the other recycling techniques. I think we need them.
The visible part might be an issue...but we've already lost to my to and nanoplastics which we digest on a daily basis. Not only perfect seeding ground for rogue cells...but also releasing chemicals ... messing up our hormonal systems...which also messes up our feelings and thoughts...and how we feel "in" our bodies...we won't sense a difference...because we will never experience the plastics free version of ourselves...well...at least the generations after 1990 won't...have you seen the amount plastics production rises since 1950...
Read about this the other day. Just what I did not need to hear. There is no end to how we are screwing up ourselves with factory food.
I guess we’re a little bit lucky that a lot of the trash has gone to one area instead of the entire ocean.
My friend found it in the early 60’s when it was only a mile long.
Sam, this problem needs more attention. Thanks for reporting on it! Is Earth Day a thing Down Under ? We do river cleanups here in Missouri.
The Pacific garbage patch (95% of it) comes from three rivers flowing out of China - Yantze, Mekong and Yellow. There is another garbage patch in the Indian Ocean which is from rivers flowing out of India. There is nogarbage patch in the Atlantic between America and Europe because Americans and Europeans don't pollute.
They do pollute but not to the same extent. The infrastructure in China and India and the public attitude towards littering is non existent and abominable. Mind you having seen the amount of litter in the UK many people here have the same awful attitude to disposing rubbish and recycling. It's a global problem which needs governments, citizens and bodies to act. There needs to be legislation forcing companies to make use of recycled material to make it more economically attractive to recycle and to force ie supemarkets to use recyclable packaging. We used to have fruit in paper bags not so long ago.
I'd argue the majority of what's in the Pacific is still trash that was drug off of the Japanese mainland in 2011.
It’s been three since the early 60’s
What needs to happen, and what does not happen, is that each country in the world needs to pay a percentage of the ocean pollution clean up it causes. When you see rivers full of plastics and garbage in the waters in various Asian countries (India (126.5 million kg). China (70.7 million kg). Indonesia (53.3 million kg), and Thailand (22.8 million kg) per year. As well as Brazil (38 million kg), Mexico (3.5 million kg), Egypt (2.5 million kg), and the United States (2.4 million kg) per year in the top 8 polluting nations they need to pay a higher percentage for clean up because these plastics end up floating from rivers into the ocean and micro pellets of plastic end up in our food supply (the fish we eat).
In particular India, China, Brazil, and Indonesia with a combined total of 288.5 million kg of plastic pollution in the oceans per year make up more plastic pollution than the rest of the world combined!!!
What about spending money keeping plastics out of the ocean. Wouldn't that be more efficient than fetching it back?
Unfortunately most of the world doesn't give a sheeet about this huge problems we have now. If we are able to unite we can fix most problems but because of pure greed we refuse to.
Great work Sam bringing this to our attention, I had no idea how grim our Oceans are getting bearing in mind here in the UK our water companies seem to spend most of their time pumping raw sewage into our Rivers and the seas around our coast then paying themselves big bonus payments
The size of Western Australia.
How do we donate to the ocean cleanup??
And yes I am reducing my plastic waste on my end already.
Go to their website. You can also buy merchandise to spread the message or donate on their UA-cam videos.
has anyone got a satellite shot of this? Any links, please
Exactly, a suspect there are zero photos.
Convert the water bottle fee to a non refundable fee and use that money to clean up the plastic pollution. Build a trash facility to cull out the plastic bottles from being incinerated.
Doesn’t that mean that people won’t be turning their water bottles in anymore??
@@austinhedgren5659 👍They are turning in their bottles right now. They toss it in the trash expecting the garbage man to take care of it.
Done correctly waste to energy is a good idea
Governments are talking a lot about CO2 emission , they should start talking about Ocean pollution
I remember watching some american movies and shows on tv about 40 years ago where they showed boats towing many garbage barges heading out to sea to discard contents - over the many years how much would have been discarded into the oceans by the U.S and other nations who allowed similar practices ?
Great Video
Glad you enjoyed it
What do they do with what they remove?
Recycle
@@jovanleon7 much of that plastic is not recyclable. And i don't think anyone has been able to recycle profitably. Glass and plastic recycling is a joke and that's why there is so much in the ocean.
This is the kind of pollution that gets me mad, not carbon bs.
what happens to the rubbish once it has been collected??
What should they do with it ?
Great to clean up. Even greater to stop using and discarding so much! Plastics enter the oceans from polluted rivers, lost fishing gear, and from dumping. I wonder what they do with what they collect. We don't know how to use all the waste plastic that actually gets collected in recycling programs. We need plastic that breaks down into non-toxic compounds.
It’s amazing that this problem has existed for years, mostly because it’s not visible from land.
Nations will fund conflicts, but so far I’m uncertain of any seriously seeking to fund this endeavor.
What’s going on with tho bodies at the World Economics?
Seems like if it's getting larger that we need to stop the source.....
Who’s going to bill the companies that produced the plastics ?
All governments are bankrupt. Keep printing more money. But i hear you. If I was a rich philanthropist I would support this. They should approach musk and other rich people.
Surprised to read that 1/3 of it comes from the Philippines.
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This is your best video, I don’t believe the climate change hype, it is a natural earth process. However I love this company, and what they are doing. There is no excuse to pollute.
Shareholders of the big brands are to blame. They continue to support these companies despite their poor environmental foot print. Returns ahead of the environment. Simple solution, identify the packaging & put a tax in shareholders' dividends & executive bonuses to pay for the clean up.
As if any other country other than the US is going to pay for that. It would be pretty easy to tell where it comes from by looking at the bottles. I’m sure it’s no mystery. China would be a pretty easy guess.
If the US stopped sending money to Ukraine it could easily pay for this cleanup.
Morning mate
As long as you keep making plastic it’s never going to be cleaned up.
the garbage patch is actually a very good thing, mother earth currents are acting like a vacuum cleaner rounding up all the debris together, hence making it more easy to clean it up.
We should be able to see that from space.
Is this clean up powered by electric or diesel ⛽️
I thought it was called the great pacific patch?
The fossile heads are always saying that we need oil to make plastic.
Now we have the answer..... reuse it. Or, use plants. Ethanol for cars use 70 times more land than you would use with solar panels, and EV's. So, if we use 69/70 of this land for plastic, we have all the plastic we need.
The solution is to have an ever-increasing carbon tax on new oil and gas, so that collecting and reprocessing this garbage then becomes cost-competitive with using virgin material from oil.
This must be done by all developed countries, both as a way of cleaning up the garbage without having to admit to ownership, and as a way of funding the many other adaptations that are needed as we progress to a zero-carbon economy.
To start with go back to glass for bottling.
Wow, what an astonishingly horrible idea. And communism, too?
@@danharold3087 Glass is good for some products but is wasteful of energy unless a high proportion is recycled. Paper, or no packaging at all, are appropriate for other products. But the Pacific Garbage Patch contains much more than just containers and packaging products, and a 'one size fits all' approach will not work well, either in prevention or cleanup.
@@paladintrueknight Capitalism created the problem, so those who expect capitalism to fix it are delusional. Only by providing an incentive to change behaviour, will we change that behaviour. If you want to call this communism, but provide no mechanism for a solution, your attitude becomes part of the problem.
@@davidinkster1296 Good gosh. Not only recycled but reused. Soda bottle alone would be a huge improvement and we have experience at that.
Why aren't the UN, World Bank, WEF etc supporting this terrific initiative instead of spending billions on spreading climate hysteria?
Let’s stop the garbage barges from dumping in the ocean
Go tell the 5 largest plastic dumping countries. www.euronews.com/green/2021/06/22/ranked-the-top-10-countries-that-dump-the-most-plastic-into-the-ocean
It figures
Cleaning is a waste of time without first stopping or vastly reducing the amount of trash going into the ocean. Find the sources and bill the countries for cleaning up the garbage based on their contribution to the trash floating in this patch.
Did not watch video. Is this where our plastics have been "recycled" too at cost on our monthly recycling fees?
India ranks top among ocean polluters
The Augean stable was nothing in comparison to this. Besides, the stable waste was non-plastic at all.
We can clean the ocean all we want but if the Chinese can't get a grip on recycling it's for not :(
They stopped imports of our plastic recycleable shit along time ago.
It's not China that's the big problem. Most of it is coming from rivers in the Philippines (2020 figures, Visual Capitalist, "Highest Ocean Plastic Waste Polluters", citing a 2021 study by J. Lourens et al.)
Up-to-date, well-managed landfills aren't really a thing there yet.
China was the top in 2010, but they've done a pretty good job since. The top 3 in 2020 were the Philippines, followed by India, and Malaysia was third.
China may say it is not China but that is propaganda. It is China more than anyone else. The Philippines has a population of just100 million. What is the population of China? Of China plus S E Asia? The Phillipines are a minor contributor to the problem.
There will soon be a patch bigger than that on land made up of discarded EVs of every type that are either obsolete or too expensive to repair.
You're being played! Where's the photos or videos of this? I can't find any. With that kind of pollution it shouldn't be that difficult to provide the photos.
Im sure the east side of Japan getting wiped out and washed into the sea during the tsunami didnt help anything.
You nicely avoid stating which countries are the big contributors to the trash islands. It is not the USA, Japan, Korea, NZ or Australia.
It would be nice if the plastic companies could start a fund as a way of paying reparations for years of damage to the environment.
The Ocean Cleanup receive a lot of donations from soft drink companies who want to improve their image and do the right thing.
"Football field every 5 sec" ? Is that American football or soccer or Aussie rules ?
Maybe tell the countries who dump their rubbish into the ocean to stop doing so?
Waste NOt, want NOT, But can be recycled into Diesel... 👍
Kind of pointless when you make more plastic trash than you can clean up.
We can already design plastic to rapidly breakdown, however nobody wants to change.
Good video though.
Who throw these much garbage ?, who is addicted to reuse plastic ? we have to think about it rather than clean ocean
I agree this human waste is from humans and all humans should contribute $$$ to clean up this mess so that when we eat the sea food, we don't eat plastic embedded in the fish.
many conservatives say God will clean it up for them
What?
On Earth Day?
More like Uranus….
if you want to get governments involved, label it 'trans' and that it needs protection.
What language is most prevalent on items floating? Chinese perhaps? Tell the whole truth, not partial.
Runoff from the Chinese Rivers all you have to do is read the labeling on the bottles it's in Chinese billions of them
Manufacturing is a good thing; river dumping is the bad thing.
@gordonwardhaugh8266
10 of the rivers around the globe contribute the vast majority of plastic to the world's oceans. Any country we outsourced plastic production to would have ended up in the oceans with current practices around those rivers. Blaming a single country leads to xenophobic reactions.
Yeah and half of the plastic in it comes from the fishing industry
Jai Hind. We Indians do not want to drink tritium water from the Fukushima garbage patch.
Maybe the patch of murky water aka the garbage patch will become sentient one day and we all be friends and live happily ever after.
That's a lot of trash. What could be the source? Not from plastic casually tossed into streams and rivers. It's got to have come from Americas West coast or Chinas East coast. And, it's got to have been on purpose. Maybe that's where all the stuff people put in "recycle" bins go. The pictures you showed kinda' looks like what I've seen at my local recycling center.
Most of it is coming from rivers in the Philippines followed by India (2020 figures, Visual Capitalist, "Highest Ocean Plastic Waste Polluters", citing a 2021 study by J. Lourens et al.).
@@FifthGate I didn't know of that study. It makes sense. Thanx. :)
The Indian plastics end up in a completely different garbage patch located in the Indian Ocean. As for China (pop. >1 billion) being a minor contributor compared to the Phillipines (pop. 100 million), I do not believe it. China lies about everything, respects no rules or laws, and covers up all it's wrongdoings. Look at the Chinese fishing fleets flaunting international laws and violating other countries territorial waters as they overfish everywhere. I am very skeptical of any "study" that seems to cast China in a favorable light (whitewash).
Notice, there is no Atlantic great garbage patch. Who is dumping plastic in the Pacific. We know, China, the Philippines, Vietnam and the other countries that we send our plastic to for recycling and dump it in the ocean.
Bad luck for the fish they probably suck up with it.
The net is stationary like a wall; the fish swim away from it.
The nets are designed to not catch fish. They are doing a fantastic job and just started on rivers too!
@@paladintrueknight Small fish tend to live under larger pieces of flotsam which becomes a mini biosphere. The fish will stay close to home until they get crushed in the sock at the end of the net. And if the net openings are large enough for fish to pass through then the net isn't doing the job of capturing the small bits of plastics that do most of the harm.
@@MustadMarine Well even if that's the case, cleaning up this crap will in the longer term be far better for fish than simply leaving it there.
Make it illegal to dump it into the ocean
3 times the size of TEXAS WTF
WTO should create plastic credits and companies that produce products that use plastic either buy these credits or b taxed heavily as in carbon credits
Show a video of the garbage patch then to prove it ????
Wow not good
Plastic tax and carbon tax to pay for the cleanup
I am shocked that you are still on the air, after your bold proclamation that you would "retire" if Tesla laid off 10% of their workers! Guess they wish they were in the union now!
Being in a union does not stop layoffs
Give him a break bruh
We’re letting China handle this one, they can do anything right?
The government should stay out of this
Correct. The government can’t even do what they’re currently tasked with half right. Just open it up to public donations. It’ll get funded. Might be slower but it’ll work.
This is the greatest boondoggle I have ever seen. The only people who are benefiting are the ones receiving donations and seed money to put on this plastic garbage show. Does anyone know how big the ocean is? This is like a fraction of a hair on one's head. Sending fuel guzzling ships and well-paid crew into the rolly North Pacific with a fragile net to pick up plastic -- and whatever fish and birds -- is a complete 100% waste of time and money. This effort equates to collecting the most expensive plastic ever made!
I have sailed through the garbage patch many times. It is unlikely you would ever know you were in the gyre. Most of the larger flotsam is fishing apparatus (nets, floats, line, etc.). The insidious plastic that causes damage is the pinky nail sized bits that break down from larger plastics. These little bits tend to have neutral buoyancy and will float in the water column like a snow globe. But you'd have to look carefully to see them. These kill sea birds and perhaps some sea animals. I have counted an average of 74 visible pieces of plastic per mile off one side of the boat, a 20x20ft section of water (water was calm and I was going slow with sun overhead).
Ocean Cleanup has a good river cleanup system but it's not as sexy. That's where you need to start. And then clean up beaches around the world, nature's natural ocean sifter (again, not sexy). And we need to educate and provide garbage collecting resources to 3rd world nations where 90% of the garbage comes from, i.e., Haiti, Burma, Vietnam, etc.
EV Viking, I admire your videos, but I would recommend against promoting this (well-intentioned) nonsense because -- when it fails -- it will diminish the importance of doing something.
This whole thing sounds like a scam.
There on the video; you had seen nets which were only able to capture a small bit of garbage while the backround shows the ocean with little if any garbage floating. This is really just a bunch of loons begging for money. There is very little garbage floating the in the Pacific garbage patch and even less life; what life is there is because of the garbage itself. Very little life exists where there is no light so 1000 miles out from any land in the Pacific its sparce, as there is no food. If you want to spend your money to net garbabe in the middle of know where; please do; just don't get my government or yours to do so; its a waste of money.
There are now 3x times more plastic packaging makers in the USA than there were 5 years ago. Making it in the first place, is the problem. Trying to clean up the mess is a waste of time and money.
Sam, stick with EVs. Don't do "Environmental Warrior". The experts and loons will eat you.