Cleaning Up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (With A Gigantic Net)

Cleaning Up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (With A Gigantic Net) | A Brief History of the Future

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Boyan Slat, the founder of The Ocean Cleanup, highlights that instead of waiting for someone else to solve problems, we should actively engage in finding solutions to the issues that bother us. Now streaming: to.pbs.org/3V7BRLk
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@oppenheimerfaaaaaan5547 3 ай бұрын

Donated to these guys a few times since they were just starting out. Very nice to see PBS doing a piece on this project. I will keep donating and encourage others to.

@leojlll563 Ай бұрын

We do need to come together as a community. Thank you for participating.

@AndrewPolich 3 ай бұрын

"What do you think when people say what you're doing is impossible?" I mean, we're the ones who made this impossible amount of trash. We source the materials, polymerize them, mold them and distribute them. It's not beyond us to recollect them. Nice job ocean clean up 🎉

@gogogadget23 3 ай бұрын

This is a con job. Those ships collecting the garbage are generating pollution far in excesss of what they're supposedly 'fixing'. It is sad to see PBS give their seal of approval to this fraud.

@LeSoleilRoyalXIV Ай бұрын

To me, people who say its impossible are responsible for this, "it's impossible so let's not care".

@younghannibal7434 3 ай бұрын

This man is doing gods work 😊

@valeriebishop561 3 ай бұрын

Recently found Clean People laundry sheets. LOVE it after using for many months. NO huge gluggy liquid detergent jugs to throw away anymore for me!

@rajkovicbosa982 6 күн бұрын

Gospodin bojan slat je spasao vodeni svet od izumiranja bravo❤

@rajkovicbosa982 14 күн бұрын

Svaka cast gospodinu bojanu slatu za ovaj projekat bravo❤

@dad102 3 ай бұрын

This kid is very impressive. Who is not impressed?

@leojlll563 Ай бұрын

I donate and spend my clicks on their video "like" buttons. We all can spare a few clicks for the cleanup, it is doing our part.

@SunDownProductions2 13 күн бұрын

Our governments should be contributing to this effort.

@Janet2508 Ай бұрын

Boyan is a genius. 👍

@asmakhaskeia7379 2 ай бұрын

Thank you 😊

@shephusted2714 3 ай бұрын

they should have giant trash compactor and containers and sort it when they get back - more storage, longer time onsite, more efficiency

@cpi23 3 ай бұрын

while it's fine to do SOMETHING with the shredded plastic there's no way getting around that we need to stop consuming so much plastics all together. I've been following the ocean cleanup since the early years and while I still love the project it just reminds me of how we are avoiding taking the real and necessary steps as a species to prevent our ecosystems from collapsing further.

@cpi23 3 ай бұрын

also: I want a youtube channel that just livestreams the interceptors that filter the garbage out of dense urban waterways and prevents them from entering the ocean. 1) it's satisfying to watch 2) it would raise awareness? Maybe?

@ahoo5753 3 ай бұрын

Restore my faith in humanity and iam impressed with that young man. But Iam still against plastic.as many things as possible should be returnable with a deposit

@ab3000x 2 ай бұрын

The Ocean Cleanup should contact "Green Vinyl Records" a.k.a. "GVR". The name of the company (with offices in the U.S. and The Netherlands) is misleading because the records are not made of PVC (Polyvinyl chloride) but PET or PETE (polyethylene terephthalate) a.k.a #1 recyclable plastic. PET is the most common thermoplastic polymer resin of the polyester family and the oceans are filled with it. GVR does not press PVC into vinyl records rather it uses PET plastic (recycled plastic is fine) in repurposed laserdisc injection mold machines. The process uses about 90% less energy to make a record because it doesn't rely on steam and extreme pressure but electricity and a polymer that has a much lower viscosity. All records are archival and can last forever if cared for and stored properly - PET ones may actually last longer. The fact that The Ocean Cleanup and GVR started in The Netherlands is a bonus.

@mellissadalby1402 2 ай бұрын

In all truth, everything is impossible until it isn't. When somebody keeps trying long enough and hard enough and smart enough to succeed, then the impossible thing is no longer impossible.

@ronkirk5099 3 ай бұрын

The key to cleaning up the pacific garbage patch is to clean up litter on land in the first place before it makes its' way via drainage ditches, streams and rivers to the ocean. The other effort should be to completely eliminate the manufacture of single use plastic and/or 100% recycle them.

@windlessoriginals1150 2 ай бұрын

Thank you

@connecticutaggie 3 ай бұрын

Is there evidence that the fishing nets are coming from stream discharge rather than ocean fishing?

@DLFfitness1 3 ай бұрын

It is sad what we have done to the earth. Unfortunately I see people throwing trash out of cars all the time. 😢

@LeSoleilRoyalXIV Ай бұрын

Out of cars, in river, on the beach, in the moutain, in the forest, everywhere i went i could see people throwing or leaving stuff around, and when you tell them, they are angry or ashamed

@Chronoir3 3 ай бұрын

It starts with us humans..... Seriously a non plastic straw on a huge plastic cup? Corpos would be fuming a campaign to end plastic happens.

@user-wd7hs2ys8n Ай бұрын

Don't take Nature for granted

@Silent_Summit 2 ай бұрын

Wish i could help in a meaningful way

@jamiemorgan4146 2 ай бұрын

BRING BACK GLASS!

@asmakhaskeia7379 2 ай бұрын

I didn't know this exists while I am alive. Which makes it much more critical. I wonder what if countries share this responsibality in cleaning this trash content instead of political wars ?!! Developing sweden receycling methods where it is possible. . Making new Japanese plastical islands .. Why they do not really care about what really matters ?!

@lloyd0077 Ай бұрын

Shark movie brougth me here

@cr-iv1el 2 ай бұрын

Show us the patch.

@philipleonardo798 Ай бұрын

Why not the plastic industry to pay for cleaning up the oceans .They make huge profits to the expence of the environment!!

@ToMPaSHKoV 3 ай бұрын

Capitalism enshittifies everything.

@cr-iv1el 2 ай бұрын

It requires a moral framework.

@drain_001 3 ай бұрын

Music is way too loud, voices just sound like mumbling.

@buriedtoodeep1508 3 ай бұрын

Legendary. Send the bill to Asia.

@SamLaney 3 ай бұрын

reminder that there's no such thing as plastic recycling. Certainly there is bad idea recycling, tho

@lovewillwinnn 3 ай бұрын

It’s not within humans’ ability to resolve. Revelation 11: 18 assures us that it will be resolved though. 😊

@daniellamcgee4251 2 ай бұрын

Nowhere in the Bible does it say to trash the planet, avoid all responsibility, and then wait to go to heaven. Your interpretation of the Bible is an example why people think religion is one of the worst things in world. We all need to grow up, value the wonders of ecosystems, and take responsibility for our planet home. Sorry to disappoint you, but increasing numbers of people are restoring the planet.