Related News: Maersk Extends Partnership to Help Cleanup Plastic Pollution at Seaĭuring 120 hours of deployment last month, System 002 - or “Jenny” as the crew nicknamed it - scooped up 8.2 tonnes of plastic, or less than a garbage truck’s standard haul. Moller-Maersk, had fixed assets over $51 million (43 million euros) at the end of 2020. The Ocean Cleanup, funded by cash donations and corporations including Coca-Cola, as well as in-kind donors like A.P.
But the group’s own best-case scenario - still likely years away - envisions removing 20,000 tonnes a year from the North Pacific, a small fraction of the roughly 11 million tonnes of plastic flowing annually into the oceans.Īnd that amount entering the ocean is expected to nearly triple to 29 million tons annually by 2040, according to the Pew Charitable Trusts. The non-profit, launched in 2013 amid buoyant media coverage, hopes to clear 90% of floating plastic from the world’s oceans by 2040. This method aims to be a very effective weapon in the cleaning and prevention of marine litter by proposing a massive and economical system that takes advantage of the direction of the marine currents to get rid of plastic waste. However, although the system can claim to be a cost effective innovation, the budget to develop the project is estimated at $ 2 million. For this reason, both Boyan Slat and the team that collaborates with him have opened a web page where it is detailed how the project will be carried out and how interested people can collaborate financially to make this purpose possible.Prone to seasickness, The Ocean Cleanup’s young Dutch founder Boyan Slat does not often venture out onto the open ocean and can’t fully see why his project is failing but, after 120 hours of deployment last month, his vessels burned tons of fuel to scoop up less than a single garbage truck’s standard haul.īy Gloria Dickie (Reuters) Docked at a Canadian port, crew members returned from a test run of the Ocean Cleanup’s system to rid the Pacific of plastic trash were thrilled by the meager results - even as marine scientists and other ocean experts doubted the effort could succeed. The machine was already deployed on Septemin California, off the coast of San Francisco (USA). It is expected to collect approximately 3,000 cubic meters of plastic garbage per collection every 45 days, or what is the same, as an Olympic swimming pool. Following this line, it is estimated that The Ocean Cleanup will be able to clean 50% of the waste from the Pacific garbage island in 5 years, after its total implementation in 2020, and up to 90% of the plastic in the oceans for the 2040. In addition, this problem not only affects marine animals, but indirectly it has also become a problem of the first order in the life of human beings. By feeding on seafood, we are introducing that contamination into our bodies, damaging our own health due to the contamination that we ourselves have caused. Likewise, the pollution of marine ecosystems alters the balance of the entire planet, so if plastic continues to circulate through ocean currents and the size of plastic islands increases, all ecosystems on the planet will be affected. This oceanic pollution caused by plastic damages the quality of the waters and endangers the life of aquatic animals , who often feed on this waste, mistaking it for their usual food or get caught in “plastic traps”. Many sea turtles mistake plastic bags for jellyfish and, when ingested, they cause serious health problems and even death. Other animals get caught in plastic waste that causes serious injuries and prevents them from moving, feeding or performing any other vital activity, growing deformed and dying after a while.
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