How was this initially funded?

Way to go!!!

Great Technology .... Please help Japan

DEADLY MICROPLASTICS? fish is the primary source of protein for nearly one-fifth of the human population. the microplastics ingested by fish and crustaceans can be subsequently consumed by humans as the end of the food chain microplastics find their way to human consumption not only from sea food but also from table salt. researchers in china tested three types of table salt samples available in supermarkets and found the presence of microplastics in all of them polyethylene terephthalate (PET), dimethyl sulfide, polyethylene (PE), polypropylene, phthalate & polyvinyl chloride (PVC) are some of the "environmentally-toxic" components / ingredients (plasticizers) of a plastic which of these components / ingredients (plasticizers) of a plastic has strong potential to be carcinogenic / mutagenic (esp. the liver) when consumed by aquatic organisms and ultimately consumed by humans in the food chain? which of these components / ingredients (plasticizers) of a plastic that is considered to be "endocrine disruptors" (affect the testes) and metabolic disrupters (affect the liver)?

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For itself. The planet is fine.

Youre right, but it never had to be this way, if we just never disposed plastic in the water...

@@hotclaw Not only for itself, but also for nature. If the planet becomes just another dead rock you can still define the planet as fine, but you could argue it is not if you put it in contrast with what it was before.

A hose pipe with a cloth on it isn't going to do shit

I think they might be misusing their time on this effort today. The faucet is still running and getting worse, and they’re focused on getting towels on the floor. I just hope there is an equivalent or greater amount of brain talent working towards preventing plastics from being dumped into the oceans around the world in the first place. Get that faucet turned off.

What if we do both? Put less waste into the environment (recycle more and/or use less plastic), and clean up the existing waste. I think this is possible.

@ I think education to Asian countries would go along way. Australia having the largest ocean boundaries see pollution to the ocean as a criminal act. If the Great Barrier Reef dies than so do we.This gives me hope for our future.

You remember his name.

Amen bro

86 to date dislike? there are pro polluters out there?

Cross This is great and all but you always hear about these types of things but then you never hear about them again. Normally because they either don’t work or run out of money.

absolutely

Will Russell tbh this is already made

@@TGears314 didn't a kid design something like this years ago?

Bailing out the Titanic with a coffee cup while the captain accelerates into more icebergs

Your comment is tempting: CAPTAIN PLANET! HES THE HERO, GONNA TAKE POLLUTION NOW TO ZERO!

This is the literal drop in the bucket. The patch is 2x the size of TEXAS and Texas is huge. Its almost 290,000 square miles.

mazimadu omg I adore your comment!💕

Because government is nearly always impotent!

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@@iminvisible873 shut up

neptune hamster ok 👌🏾

@@iminvisible873 I'm sorry, hehe it's that likes don't have to matter

This comment didn't restore my hatred, you can't blame the whole world for this and it's the corporations and goverment fault for making a huge controversy to this.

I just said the same thing in a previous video about this. We really can do great things. And now is definitely the time for humanity to step up. But seeing this restored my faith for sure.

That will have an even greater impact!

What people do not realise, is that alot of plastic (and other trash) gets into the ocean by hurricanes, typhoons, floodings etc. Especially in poor countries they do not handle all the (plastic)thrash that well so it gets easily flodded into the ocean. So its also necessary to build recycling facilities in those countries next to cleaning up the ocean.

Lets have Elon Musk send it to space instead.

90% of all plastic waste in the oceans comes from just 10 rivers, 8 in China and India, one in Africa, one in Vietnam. Teaching them not to dump their waste in the next river would be 90% of the solution.

Almost all the plastic in the oceans comes from five countries, all in Asia; China, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. These five contribute more of the plastic pollution than the rest of the world combined.

The cleaning IS the fantastic part Steve.

Um, Kinda fantastic.

Yes, I agree. But I have seen so called 'environmental activists' complaing about this technology. The fact is they don't care about solving the problem, they just want to control us.

This one time i crashed my car into the river, i was so drunk that night. I remember my car leaking fluid and i could see the water changing color because if this. I alao went back the next day to try and hid the evidence and remember seeing 100's of dead fish where my car hit the water

@@KingTheGermanShepherd Consideing it was a river any fluids would have flowed down stream and away from the point of impact, any dead fish you saw the next day were likely not killed by your car's fluids.

pizzamon 79 same! 😊

lol you aren't doing shit fam

@@warblesnow7925 omg are we actually getting to a point that humans are assuming that other humans aren't doing good because it's so "rare" for humans to do good these days? Like is it so surprising to see a human help the planet? This should be a normal thing that you should be doing too. Don't assume that this person doesn't do it just because you aren't doing it.

josoapification remember we have had 2 major tsunamis in the Pacific lately, S.E. Asia and Japan! These pulled every piece of plastic out of these cities into the sea!

And to reduce the amount of produced plastic. We can use orher materials for crafting things as the plasric bottles for water or other drinks, or of course to prevent the usage of plastic bags in more countries, that would help a lot.

Agreed

They?

No that's a long-term solution. We're not good at that

First you have to clean up the turds running the city. I mean ruining the city. Start with the mayor and fire everyone under her!

@@colejohnson3705 We need to clean the turds out of pretty much every elected office. If you ask them "what's your job" And they respond with "I'm the (insert publicly elected office title)" They need to be canned. It's not a JOB to be elected to public office, it is a privilege to serve your community. No more career politicians!!!!

@Tom Jones Amen Tom

J.T. Tomas your greed of freedom make people poor and homeless God'is not mocked when you go up against God's word and the poor and homeless you bring judgements on you and your s

J.T. Tomas your greed of freedom make people poor and homeless God'is not mocked when you go up against God's word and the poor and homeless you bring judgements on you and your s.

I'm in.. I get physically sick when I go to the store and I see EVERY single person walk out with a 24 pack of water bottles or more sometimes it's like 2-3 packs... How can they do that???? What's the plan?

Not really. Because no animal is big enough or strong enough to chew on the tube. It’s also designed to be robust so that it doesn’t break into tiny pieces and it’s resilient against degradation.

Just like we need anti venom from snakes to treat snake bites. Lol.

Plastic isn't inherently evil. The way we choose to use it matters.

@@AlqGo you have not considered the risk of a sharknado. Climate change works in mysterious ways. Crazy how nature do that.

RubsNL wooow so sharknado is real? God damn I thought it was fa...oh wait I didn’t even know this word! Jokes aside, according to the company, it’s designed to withstand a “once-in-a-100-year storm”.

I always pick up two or three pieces every time I go to the ocean. If we all spent two minutes it would change everything. Good work 👍🏼

There are quite a few companies working on systems or already have systems working on cleaning up. Private sector is the key, not government.

Huge garbage patch in the middle of the ocean......not one picture of it. Propaganda

Yes do support them with money, look at their website.

xCr1mmortal yeah they are because they bring so much cocaine from Colombia 😂😂

@@Joakimjohannessen hahaha

What are you talking about? The dutch are like everybody else. Boyan Slat is a hero. But there are good and bad people there. If you want to meet some trash people go to the red light district in Amsterdam and then you tell us

@Pentagon1337 nah man hes born in Delft in the Netherlands. Dont know where you got that from

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They have floating boats that hang out in the best flow area of rivers so other vessels can pass. Check out their site on this vessel. It’s amazing.

In principle I totally concur. Question: how to keep the device out of the way of shipping...

Just buy one of their sunglasses made from this plastic. They are $199 and are a great help to them .

Chuonon from what I understand, they have data about ocean currents etc. that helps them predict how the plastic moves, calculate where to launch the cleanup systems, and so on. Notice how much they talk about data? This technology is not just the rafts that you can see - a key ingredient is data processing. I think they are ambitious, but I believe they can achieve their goal :-)

@@RasmusSchultz Okay assume they have komplex computer models which take currents and winds in account.They would still face the problem that the waste will follow the same route as the unit, im not a native speaker , so i have missed some explanation in the video, but as i understood it , the problem is not specifically adressed with this test unit. Anyway are computermodels limited especially in high current areas in the middle of the pacific , there are a lot of omitted variables which could bias the estimation of the direction and force of currents and winds.

You should submit a question and ideas to them. Its something to think about...

Given the size and shape of the cleanup device, it may well travel at a different rate then the relatively small bits of plastic it’s trapping in the net. I don’t think it would take much difference in speed for the garbage to accumulate in the net over time. Just my educated guess.

@@midiotsavant i don't say it will not catch any waste , i just say it could be more effective.I know that there will be a diffrence in speed bit it's hard to quantify the diffrence and if you are trying to get business done , you schould at least try and cobtroll the things that are happening. And In which way is your guess "educated"?

People can be really dumb. Mostly I'm betting it's people thinking - oooh that's bad, I don't like the state of the sea with all that plastic in it... Thumbs down! Aaah feel better.

They have tried but the dems are still there

Amen. The world hates them to. To turn against there own people to not protect us but attack us. There going to be left fighting ww3 alone.

No shit, Sherlock Ffs......

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Ur Mom stroms have a lot to do with it to

Most of the plastic trash is thrown at some unattended places which later gets carried away with rainwater into streams, which then get merged into rivers and finally enters into ocean.

The largest problem is third world countries whose governments have not come up with a viable waste collection and disposal system. Because of that people have nowhere to put their trash except outside - wherever. Then, when it rains, that plastic floats on the rainwater to the streams and rivers and out to the ocean.

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Plastics are fibreous molecules and filler, somewhat like reinforced concrete, the fillers are harmful by themselves, and when they leach from the composite the fibres are let loose and become harmful by themselves

No money in prevention

noxin86 So I guess, as you were there, you confronted the locals? ....or?

@@ronkalkhoven2119 Sure did, they said they had no waste disposal system no body came to collect the trash at all. Tipping the waste into the river was the disposal system. Very sad when I walked along the beach, I could see plastic items scattered everywhere for as far as you could walk. Maybe Ill edit some of my footage and post it on ebay.

@@noxin86 Sounds like a good place for you to start up a waste disposal business... Assuming you can somehow turn a profit out of it. Otherwise you will just go bankrupt.

Don't ever discount "non-expert" concepts and ideas.

yeah thats why it was a total flop and didnt work at all

@@morrisl7 It does work. They just had to refine the design.

@@timgreen4137 prove it? Wheres the statistics? They are barely removing anything, the smallest plastic they get out is 1mm, most of it is way smaller than that.

@@morrisl7 I read a news article about it. It will take years for it to clean it up "entirely". But they have already removed thousands of tons of plastic using this system. They even installed sea anchors to slow it, and help steer it.

You can recycle paper. You can't recycle a lot of plastic types. Only PET. Ignorance is why we have a garbage problem in nature.

@@MartyGlaubitz Actually, all plastic that has been made since they invented it, is still on this planet. It doesn't dissappear like paper. It just gets broken down into micro pieces.

Well that’s not true a lot of it is incinerated for power with filters to stop the soot, I can’t remember which Scandinavia country it is but one of them got so good at it that it imports rubbish to burn for power

Yes! You can switch to reusable bags for the market and such...

Marty Glaubitz no shit Sherlock. You missed the point.