Live cameras on your Interceptors could bring in so many new viewers and possible donations to the project. Something to consider, thanks for what you folks have accomplished and we all look forward to what’s next.
That would be most awesome. I was already searching for something like we got when Wilson first went offshore. I can already imagine putting all those streams together into one view or running image detection on the video stream to analyze what kind of trash is being picked up!
@@lucasgasenzer you could tie them with a weather station to battle plants and peak demands due to excessive rain fall. Trouble shoot problems as they happen and store images to catch what happens before problems start.
@@Sandlin22 yes, but our disposal and "recycling" isn't as perfect as people tell themselves and are told by institutions and government. You can read howmuch of a scam recycling is in many cases.
I just signed up for monthly donation to The Ocean Cleanup. It's small, but I want to contribute to all the work and effort you guys do. I really appreciate and support the work you've done!
Well done for installing number 4. I saw that a big part of the intercepted stuff from the river was green. Things like leaves and branches from trees. I wonder how big of an impact that has on operations, and how the non-plastic which is caught is handled. Greetings from Rotterdam
Meanwhile a Indian in the amazon throwing his bag in the river watching a paper newspaper with usb C about every country and global warming wondering if his bag is the problem or the world 🥲
I am so proud of everything you have achieved especially during the pandemic. I'm so glad I randomly watched the unveiling of the first interceptor. That was the defining moment in my life that made me rethink my view on plastic. It makes me so happy to know my donation is actually making a difference keep up the amazing work.
Wherever you roam, bring some big plastic bags, reusable of course, and PICK UP SOME TRASH!! Let's help the Interceptors team, they do water, we do land. Please, you would never treat your home like this, don't treat the world like garbage, pick some up!!! Jeannie in Lakeport California. p.s. I do it, you can too!!
I am so happy to see this ingenious work functioning and that despite the difficulty and setbacks caused by the pandemic, bad weather and so on, the 004 interceptor is up and running again. I am happy that it is in my country. I know this is the beginning of a beautiful work towards the improvement of the handling of plastics and of course the care of the island's natural water resources. I know that this will permeate the hearts and minds of young people to be part of the change. I am one of those! Many blessings.
Thank you for your kind words, Solibel. While the deployment of 004 was not without its unique challenges, we are also happy to have solved them, and hope that our small efforts will be the start of many good things to come.
Brilliant, whoever invented the intercepted is a genius. Thanks for constantly cleaning our rivers and ocean. Let’s get more Country’s involved and thanks again for your dedication for cleaning our environment.
Thanks to clean up the rivers in Dominican Repubic. Gracias por limpiar los rios en la Republica Dominicana . 🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱 Holanda y la Republica Dominicana ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
A slight modification, If the Interceptors had a panel that went from the back where the rubbish is collected, out a few feet and dipped 6-12 inches below the surface, it would catch hold of the floating vegetation. Pushing it under the interceptor, leaving the plastic floating, and into the interceptor. Cos the vegetation will have part of it below the surface, unlike plastic that floats on top of the water.
Absolutely Brilliant!!! Congratulations to every one at The Ocean Cleanup, The Dominican Republic Navy and Government and local officials and organisations - what beautiful sight she makes - she will inspire many people and start a new movement in their country. This is just awesome!!!!
THANK YOU GUYS❤️🥰!! You are saving the planet each day you clean our oceans. Education,information,infrastructure,and caring are also requirements for success in cleaning our beautiful planet.
Suggested solution for the water hyacinths: Could the interceptor have a camera detecting what is about to enter it and if it detects the level of water hyacinths is above a certain threshold, it activates a diverter/bypass, blocking entry to the interceptor and allowing everything in the barrier to bypass the system until the water hyacinths concentration is below the threshold? This could also be manually activated by operators as a precautionary measure ahead of weather events that are likely to cause issues. Yes, this might mean some rubbish gets missed while the interceptor is in divert/bypass mode, but weigh that against the downtime of a clogged system or the bins getting emptied with mostly water hyacinths in them...
The critics can say all they very well want but the fact of the matter is you guys are trying something which means in time we will have a far better version of tech or policy to prevent the issue and the interceptor is an amazingly beautiful piece of technology thank you truly thank you it warms my heart to see people doing something to help the great mother of us all 🌍
You need a break away system on the boom that releases on an over load and can be reset. The system could still have a long line connected to the boom so the boom could be hauled back in and reattached. Although a mechanism like a ski boot binding could work, also a cheap aluminum pin that shears in case of a boat collision or storm over load.
I've been following for several years. So happy that this is coming together so well. Solution: to bring awareness to the people and countries about waste and water management. Kudos team!
Congratulations to the entire team on splendid work on this project. I have a suggestion, "Automated SORTING Mechanism" you can implement automated sorting using robotic arms or some other mechanism that will separate the organic matter from plastics. I believe some systems exists out there that can do this tedious and difficult task using high speed cameras, robotic arms, air guns that literally blow the lighter plastic material off the conveyor into a secondary collection unit. I emphasize sorting because, it appears there is just too much garbage in most rivers and you would probably end up collecting too much organic material which would end up decomposing in the open anyways. I know that will be the case when you use this system in most of South East Asian rivers and Indian rivers.
Ocean CleanUp is doing so much 💪on a global scale to help clean Oceans and Rivers. Is anything else being done on the ground by local Governments to help educate people about the importance of taking care of their environment (especially those leaving in coastal lines)? Can local Governments provide more resources (trash containers or frequent regular pickup of trash) so people can take ownership of their environment and keep it clean for the health and safety of their children, and future generations. Perhaps getting local team to volunteer and organize coastal clean ups every month will also help. I don’t leave anywhere near a body of water, but I would totally volunteer. just saying; 😌
What about using computer vision to differentiate between plants (hyacinths) and trash? You could redirect the hyacinth away from the interceptor mouth so to not clog it up
Amazing work on the Interceptors! Now its time to make them more efficient. I see a lot of water plants are gathered and collected in the bins. Are they also recylcled or are they just waste of space in the bins? A sorting application could be implemented using robots above the conveyor. You could use a vision system to identify plants / natural materials and remove them from the conveyor using waterproof robots (IP67). This would result in a higher ratio of plastic to plants and the time to replace the bins would increase.
The plants you are seeing here are water hyacinth, which are a non-native and invasive species. Removing them is actually beneficial to the river life, so it's a bit of a bonus. Any organic waste is sorted by the local waste management, who make the decision on which organic matter should be returned to the river to keep the ecosystem intact.
@@theoceancleanup "local waste management make the decision..." Your project is absolutely amazing. I've been following for years and tell my friends about it, and you guys are true heroes. But I do slightly worry about unintended consequences of removing floating vegetation... such as water hyacinth in places where it is native (South America), or coarse woody debris. What would rely on that vegetation downstream? What will be the effect of removing that carbon sink of biological matter into the deep ocean? Anyway, right now as your videos make abundantly clear, biological matter (even water hyacinth) is outweighed substantially by human trash. So thank you once again from the bottom of my heart for your vision, your skill and your sheer persistence.
This is truly fantastic work, but perhaps even more important will be education and waste management, as mentioned in the video. If people just keep throwing all their junk into nature and rivers, this problem will never stop.
I cant belive greenpeace gets more atencion than this. THIS is helping the world, not that scam from greenpeace that says "oH nO GMo BAd". They say they dont want plastic in the sea and they dont do nothing about it. This channel is the example of what we should do. We need more proyects like this
Congratulations on the great work that you are doing to clean up the Plastic that floats in our Waterways All over the World.instead of plastic Bottles use Glass Bottles because you can reuse the Glass bottles again and again.
I applaud these efforts - good work team. What can be done to stop the trash from entering the river? Anything? Is there a way to do a local garbage collection program? I realize this is a global problem.
There are many ways to help like spreading our mission, reducing your plastic waste and recycling where possible. For a more complete list, please send us an email at info@theoceancleanup.com
You should have a look where the plastics in the river comes from, I gues it`s from wild dumps near the rivers, so you have to get rid of those and implement a sufficient waste system in the communities. And a vast majority of what the interceptor collects also after hurrican season seems to be waterplants. So it would be interesting to see what the Domincan Republic does with this collected trash.
Not really. There's not enough plastic that enters the ocean from those rivers that governments would want to pay for the interceptor, especially at an increased price. Plus, every one that's placed sub optimally just means more plastic enters the oceans.
I would also reccomend incertaining any and all plastics into any tar or concrete or anyting used for roads. It will be a win, win for everyone since the plastics are not and cannot be recycled. Everyone has been lied to!
I think all this really shows how people actually work. We're literally biologically hardwired to work together and so aggressively social we want to help one another. If we removed the corporate need to work then we would have more. Think movies; they really do advance technology, and it's in working together we make real advances.
Live cameras on your Interceptors could bring in so many new viewers and possible donations to the project. Something to consider, thanks for what you folks have accomplished and we all look forward to what’s next.
That would be most awesome. I was already searching for something like we got when Wilson first went offshore. I can already imagine putting all those streams together into one view or running image detection on the video stream to analyze what kind of trash is being picked up!
@@lucasgasenzer you could tie them with a weather station to battle plants and peak demands due to excessive rain fall. Trouble shoot problems as they happen and store images to catch what happens before problems start.
I actually asked them to do this on Instagram. They said they would eventually, but they probably forgot. I really want the livestream too🙏🏼
With Starlink, might actually be possible :)
That would be rad
This is great, I wish you luck in scaling this project to the global level and clean up our mistakes.
It's only the mistakes of people who litter mainly
@@Sandlin22 yes, but our disposal and "recycling" isn't as perfect as people tell themselves and are told by institutions and government. You can read howmuch of a scam recycling is in many cases.
@@Sandlin22 you're highly mistaken about that, do some research into where your trash goes
Negligence is more appropriate
@@morphkogan8627 This is true! Plastic recycling is a complete joke and just a way for the plastic manufacturers to move the problem onto the consumer
I just signed up for monthly donation to The Ocean Cleanup. It's small, but I want to contribute to all the work and effort you guys do. I really appreciate and support the work you've done!
Well done for installing number 4. I saw that a big part of the intercepted stuff from the river was green. Things like leaves and branches from trees. I wonder how big of an impact that has on operations, and how the non-plastic which is caught is handled. Greetings from Rotterdam
Let's go!! Still 996 interceptors left to put in place, lot of work still to be done.
'If you think we can’t change the world, It just means you're not one of those that will' - Jacque Fresco
Love the quote, love the man.
The way
Meanwhile a Indian in the amazon throwing his bag in the river watching a paper newspaper with usb C about every country and global warming wondering if his bag is the problem or the world 🥲
I am so proud of everything you have achieved especially during the pandemic. I'm so glad I randomly watched the unveiling of the first interceptor. That was the defining moment in my life that made me rethink my view on plastic. It makes me so happy to know my donation is actually making a difference keep up the amazing work.
We're glad our Interceptor made such an important impact on the way you think of plastic, Matthew. Thanks for your support!
Wherever you roam, bring some big plastic bags, reusable of course, and PICK UP SOME TRASH!! Let's help the Interceptors team, they do water, we do land. Please, you would never treat your home like this, don't treat the world like garbage, pick some up!!! Jeannie in Lakeport California. p.s. I do it, you can too!!
I am so happy to see this ingenious work functioning and that despite the difficulty and setbacks caused by the pandemic, bad weather and so on, the 004 interceptor is up and running again. I am happy that it is in my country. I know this is the beginning of a beautiful work towards the improvement of the handling of plastics and of course the care of the island's natural water resources. I know that this will permeate the hearts and minds of young people to be part of the change. I am one of those! Many blessings.
Thank you for your kind words, Solibel. While the deployment of 004 was not without its unique challenges, we are also happy to have solved them, and hope that our small efforts will be the start of many good things to come.
Wow!! Thank you so much for sharing this with & do this for us & our lovely mother Gaia 🌍🦋💕🍀🌈🙏♥️❣️YES to a new world 🤩
Swear I will contribute to you guys financially when I get a job! Thank you for your service to the present and future generation of the world!!
brilliant work people i am as proud of the ocean clean up.
Brilliant, whoever invented the intercepted is a genius. Thanks for constantly cleaning our rivers and ocean. Let’s get more Country’s involved and thanks again for your dedication for cleaning our environment.
What you guys are doing is amazing. I bought from you guys my "Ocean Cleanup Sunglasses" and I tell everyone to support your efforts. Keep it going
Thanks to clean up the rivers in Dominican Repubic. Gracias por limpiar los rios en la Republica Dominicana . 🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱 Holanda y la Republica Dominicana ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
As a Dominican I want to thank y’all for all the good you’re doing for the environment and for the Dominican Republic
A slight modification, If the Interceptors had a panel that went from the back where the rubbish is collected, out a few feet and dipped 6-12 inches below the surface, it would catch hold of the floating vegetation. Pushing it under the interceptor, leaving the plastic floating, and into the interceptor. Cos the vegetation will have part of it below the surface, unlike plastic that floats on top of the water.
I believe water hyacinth is not native to these waters and it is probably a good idea to get it out of the water.
Absolutely Brilliant!!! Congratulations to every one at The Ocean Cleanup, The Dominican Republic Navy and Government and local officials and organisations - what beautiful sight she makes - she will inspire many people and start a new movement in their country. This is just awesome!!!!
I think it's absolutely incredible that the NAVY are involved!! Way to use the military forces for good!
THANK YOU GUYS❤️🥰!! You are saving the planet each day you clean our oceans. Education,information,infrastructure,and caring are also requirements for success in cleaning our beautiful planet.
As always, it is super exciting to see updates from you guys. A lot of people talk about saving the world, The Ocean Cleanup is out there doing it!
This is the most important work being done on earth right now.
Suggested solution for the water hyacinths: Could the interceptor have a camera detecting what is about to enter it and if it detects the level of water hyacinths is above a certain threshold, it activates a diverter/bypass, blocking entry to the interceptor and allowing everything in the barrier to bypass the system until the water hyacinths concentration is below the threshold? This could also be manually activated by operators as a precautionary measure ahead of weather events that are likely to cause issues. Yes, this might mean some rubbish gets missed while the interceptor is in divert/bypass mode, but weigh that against the downtime of a clogged system or the bins getting emptied with mostly water hyacinths in them...
What is done with the plastic that's collected? THANK YOU for your work!!! This is needed in so many places, no doubt!
I love this Organisation soo much! Thank you! 🥰🥰🥰🤩❤️❤️❤️
Dutch ???????
The critics can say all they very well want but the fact of the matter is you guys are trying something which means in time we will have a far better version of tech or policy to prevent the issue and the interceptor is an amazingly beautiful piece of technology thank you truly thank you it warms my heart to see people doing something to help the great mother of us all 🌍
You need a break away system on the boom that releases on an over load and can be reset. The system could still have a long line connected to the boom so the boom could be hauled back in and reattached. Although a mechanism like a ski boot binding could work, also a cheap aluminum pin that shears in case of a boat collision or storm over load.
I've been following for several years. So happy that this is coming together so well.
Solution: to bring awareness to the people and countries about waste and water management. Kudos team!
Thanks guys, really thank you for all the things you are doing ☀
All the best to the Ocean Cleanup Team. Thank you for your dedication and resourcefulness.
Bless the people who inventer this machine🙏🏻🙏🏻
This project brings tears of joy to my eyes. You guys are doing great things, please keep at it.
They went from no one thinking and ocean cleanup could be done and they made " wilson". Breath taking. What is possible in the world is with out words
Anything is achievable if you have the imagination and the will to change the world, Matthew!
Please bring this to India! I hope this could get installed in the rivers of Kolkata, Mumbai and other big cities of India!
Super Proud of you all ,fantastic,so awesome and blue is the 🌊 thanks to you✌️
Congratulations to the entire team on splendid work on this project.
I have a suggestion, "Automated SORTING Mechanism"
you can implement automated sorting using robotic arms or some other mechanism that will separate the organic matter from plastics. I believe some systems exists out there that can do this tedious and difficult task using high speed cameras, robotic arms, air guns that literally blow the lighter plastic material off the conveyor into a secondary collection unit.
I emphasize sorting because, it appears there is just too much garbage in most rivers and you would probably end up collecting too much organic material which would end up decomposing in the open anyways. I know that will be the case when you use this system in most of South East Asian rivers and Indian rivers.
I look forward to the day that there are tankers collecting ocean trash. You're doing a great job!
Thank you for the amazing work you guys have done🙏🌎 what happens to the biomass collected by the interceptor?
We make sure that the biomass collected by the Interceptor is disposed of by the best local standards available!
Great work...many thanks to the whole team!!!
It's fantastic to see people working together :) Great work!
Good for all of us !
Ocean CleanUp is doing so much 💪on a global scale to help clean Oceans and Rivers. Is anything else being done on the ground by local Governments to help educate people about the importance of taking care of their environment (especially those leaving in coastal lines)?
Can local Governments provide more resources (trash containers or frequent regular pickup of trash) so people can take ownership of their environment and keep it clean for the health and safety of their children, and future generations.
Perhaps getting local team to volunteer and organize coastal clean ups every month will also help. I don’t leave anywhere near a body of water, but I would totally volunteer.
just saying; 😌
this makes my soul smile
It’s great to see you guys are still in action, and I wish you all the best with these efforts.
Congratulations team! Well done and what an achievement!
Thank you for giving us hope in a better future!
Interceptor ,not as a final solution, but as educational device. It has to reach people's minds and hearts
👏👏 peço que se possível trazer para o Brasil esse maravilhoso projeto 🇧🇷🇧🇷
so proud to see my donations put to good use for a better world! Keep donating guys, not just watching 😉
Thank you. Go Ocean Clean up Interceptor 004. Stay safe
8:30 well said sir.
the placement near the bridge is ingenious!
God bless you!!! You’re blessed that’s why it was raining 🌧, God is happy 😃.
Thankyou for all your effort to make the world a better cleaner place
So awesome to see another one working!! Thank you for all your (persistent) work!
This is the best second thing in Dominic after great Felix Sanchez 😀
Thank you The Ocean Clean up Project!
Great stuff. I would subscribe to a 24x7 twitch stream of just seeing the interceptors catch the plastic
What about using computer vision to differentiate between plants (hyacinths) and trash? You could redirect the hyacinth away from the interceptor mouth so to not clog it up
You are just amazing guys. we need more people like you to save this earth. Thank you!
Amazing work on the Interceptors! Now its time to make them more efficient. I see a lot of water plants are gathered and collected in the bins.
Are they also recylcled or are they just waste of space in the bins?
A sorting application could be implemented using robots above the conveyor. You could use a vision system to identify plants / natural materials and remove them from the conveyor using waterproof robots (IP67). This would result in a higher ratio of plastic to plants and the time to replace the bins would increase.
The plants you are seeing here are water hyacinth, which are a non-native and invasive species. Removing them is actually beneficial to the river life, so it's a bit of a bonus. Any organic waste is sorted by the local waste management, who make the decision on which organic matter should be returned to the river to keep the ecosystem intact.
@@theoceancleanup That's great! Thanks for the clarification. Keep up the good work.
@@theoceancleanup "local waste management make the decision..." Your project is absolutely amazing. I've been following for years and tell my friends about it, and you guys are true heroes. But I do slightly worry about unintended consequences of removing floating vegetation... such as water hyacinth in places where it is native (South America), or coarse woody debris. What would rely on that vegetation downstream? What will be the effect of removing that carbon sink of biological matter into the deep ocean? Anyway, right now as your videos make abundantly clear, biological matter (even water hyacinth) is outweighed substantially by human trash. So thank you once again from the bottom of my heart for your vision, your skill and your sheer persistence.
Congratulations. Thank you for all the work and effort.
Congratulations guys, very proud of you.
I’d love to see my country get in on this type of positive change
I love all your videos they should be higher on trending than all the gaming and makeup and music videos
Beautiful! Congratulations, and thank you!
This is truly fantastic work, but perhaps even more important will be education and waste management, as mentioned in the video. If people just keep throwing all their junk into nature and rivers, this problem will never stop.
You guys are doing amazing work cleaning up the growing plastic and garbage pollution in the water!
I cant belive greenpeace gets more atencion than this. THIS is helping the world, not that scam from greenpeace that says "oH nO GMo BAd". They say they dont want plastic in the sea and they dont do nothing about it. This channel is the example of what we should do. We need more proyects like this
Congratulations on the great work that you are doing to clean up the Plastic that floats in our Waterways All over the World.instead of plastic Bottles use Glass Bottles because you can reuse the Glass bottles again and again.
Fantastic.
Do you have any films that follow up on what happens to the reclaimed materials after thev are taken from the river?
I really hope DR continues to change for the better and people throw less trash into nature
I sure as hell hope you're getting some funding from the plastics industry. In fact they should be funding the whole thing
absolutely amazing
Good job guys all the best from kempas,johor bahru, malaysia
This needs to take off all over the world asap. l hope we get one for Australia too.
Now is the time and it is do or die. Literally.
Godspeed!
Woohoo, love the progress and this video
Brilliant - well done to everyone involved!
Great work guys.keep going👍
Aye m8’s, another great step! Bit by bit we shall make it! 💪
Yes, the whole world is happy when your country started to clean up your acts.
I applaud these efforts - good work team. What can be done to stop the trash from entering the river? Anything? Is there a way to do a local garbage collection program? I realize this is a global problem.
Iam so thankful to all involved in this . Iam so so grateful. Tell us what else can we do.
There are many ways to help like spreading our mission, reducing your plastic waste and recycling where possible. For a more complete list, please send us an email at info@theoceancleanup.com
Where does the waste goes afterwards?
Pioneers always discover the way.
You should have a look where the plastics in the river comes from, I gues it`s from wild dumps near the rivers, so you have to get rid of those and implement a sufficient
waste system in the communities. And a vast majority of what the interceptor collects also after hurrican season seems to be waterplants. So it would be interesting
to see what the Domincan Republic does with this collected trash.
Nice looking project. Really!
Did you told the people living upriver to stop store garbage near the stream or throwing it into the water?
Looks like it is capturing just as much plant life as well
From a funding perspective, getting these machines onto rivers like the Thames or Danube would help finance projects in less affluent areas.
Not really. There's not enough plastic that enters the ocean from those rivers that governments would want to pay for the interceptor, especially at an increased price. Plus, every one that's placed sub optimally just means more plastic enters the oceans.
The Whole World needs to be returned as a affluent World …Not a one location!
They are targeting the 1000 most polluting rivers
Thank you for starting this process to heal our oceans and rivers
They all have such cute accents. The dog was too cute!
I would also reccomend incertaining any and all plastics into any tar or concrete or anyting used for roads. It will be a win, win for everyone since the plastics are not and cannot be recycled. Everyone has been lied to!
You guys rock! There is hope...
What are you doing with the added green garbage ? How do you separate green waste from plasic debree ?? Thanks previously for answer and response !
Thanks Oc. 👍
Thank you for your work.
I think all this really shows how people actually work. We're literally biologically hardwired to work together and so aggressively social we want to help one another. If we removed the corporate need to work then we would have more. Think movies; they really do advance technology, and it's in working together we make real advances.
Thank you for another great job well done
Great job guys!!
Boyan Slat is a living legend!
YES !👍👍👍