There is an estimated 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic (270,000 metric tonnes) in our oceans, according to non-profit ocean advocacy group 5 Gyres Institute. “The health of our oceans is vital to ensure a healthy planet and environment for future generations, and we stay committed to doing our part to protect the oceans and its ecosystems,” said Mette Refshauge, vice president of corporate communications and sustainability at AP Moller – Maersk. The Ocean Cleanup has partnered up with offshore and logistics company AP Moller – Maersk, which has a fleet of 708 vessels, to help their goal. Carbon emissions from the systems will be offset with the eventual aim of reaching carbon neutrality. Syl5uypND6Īn improved system, named System 003, is set to be rolled out to collect even more ocean waste – it will be three times larger than System 002. It’s no longer in the ocean, and next week, we’ll bring it to shore so it can’t pose a threat to the environment ever again. This is what 9000kg of ocean plastic looks like inside the retention zone and on deck. They trialled new technology during a 12-week test campaign, with the view to scaling up their system to reach the ambitious goal of reducing ocean plastic by 90 per cent by 2040. The Ocean Cleanup charity, made up of 120 engineers, researchers, scientists, have made it their mission to harvest as much plastic from the ocean as possible. But here plastics are breaking down into small particles, causing damage to marine life and ecosystems. No one can accurately grasp how much debris is located at the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, much of it could have sunken to the ocean bed and, as the area of trash is so far from land, no country will take responsibility for cleaning it up. Using a large-scale cleanup system, called System 002, The Ocean Cleanup visited an area known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch – a swirling vortex of man-made waste floating in between Hawaii and California. The Ocean Cleanup has recovered more than 31 tonnes of waste from the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of California, since July this year.
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