Channel: The Ocean Cleanup

Category: Science & Technology

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Description: By creating a product to help fund more cleanup, we can go full circle and turn plastic pollution from a problem into a solution. Do you want to help us go full circle for the first time? Head over to our website to get The Ocean Cleanup sunglasses here: bit.ly/34GqpL0 On October 24, 2020, Boyan Slat presented our first product, sunglasses, made with ocean plastic certified from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. 100% of the proceeds will fund the continuation of the cleanup. Each pair of sunglasses is estimated to enable cleaning an equivalent of 24 football fields worth of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. When every pair from the first batch is claimed, that will equate to approximately 500,000 footballs of cleanup, allowing us to use plastic to clean up even more plastic - going full circle each time until we have achieved our mission: ridding the oceans of plastic. -- 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. Our passive systems are estimated to remove 50% of the Great Pacific Garbage patch in just five years, and at a fraction of the cost. — Find more information: theoceancleanup.com/rivers Make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay updated. And follow The Ocean Cleanup on: Facebook: bit.ly/2QWgmLQ Twitter: bit.ly/2RqHqSk Instagram: bit.ly/2st9SKT