At The Ocean Cleanup our mission is to rid the world's oceans of plastic. The real complicated part of this puzzle is that everything is interlinked. What we need to do is two things.
One, we need to clean up the legacy pollution. Two, we need to close the tap. Everyone's ready?
If we have the motivation and we have the skills, we will get there. The first few years, we really focused on trying to understand the problem and map it, which then became the basis on which we developed our solutions. Our philosophy is to learn as we go and iterate our way towards success.
Good luck. We've just passed the Golden Gate Bridge, the iconic moment. Every hour is a small victory, and every plastic piece that we will catch is a small victory.
So we have a major structural failure. This is normal. Welcome to the world of cutting edge technology.
The plastic is within arm's reach, literally. We can't be that far away from getting a system working. Wow!
Here it's all tiny particles also. What is the next logical step? Boyan always thinks about improving.
With this machine I truly believe that we're on the right track. A dirty river comes in, a clean river comes out. That's a teddy bear.
This is the day, this is the moment, finally. The time has come now to deliver on our promises. It's so beautiful to see this.
Wow! That's the most exciting thing in the world, to me. We have shown that we are capable to repeatedly harvest large amounts of plastic.
Let this mark the beginning of the end for the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Imagine if we do get this done, we could truly make our oceans clean again. That's a future to look forward to.
