Channel: The Ocean Cleanup

Category: Science & Technology

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Description: The Ocean Cleanup sunglasses are made with certified ocean plastic to fund the next cleanup operations. Make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay updated: bit.ly/371k8sN Each pair of sunglasses is estimated to enable cleaning an equivalent of 24 football fields worth of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. When every pair from the first batch is claimed, that will equate to approximately 500,000 footballs of cleanup, allowing us to use plastic to clean up even more plastic - going full circle each time until they have achieved their mission: ridding the oceans of plastic. -- Trash accumulates in five ocean garbage patches, the largest one being the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, located between Hawaii and California. If left to circulate, the plastic will impact our ecosystems, health, and economies. Solving it requires a combination of closing the source, and cleaning up what has already accumulated in the ocean. The ocean is big. Cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch using conventional methods – vessels and nets – would take thousands of years and tens of billions of dollars to complete. After fleets of The Ocean Cleanup systems are deployed into every ocean gyre, combined with source reduction, The Ocean Cleanup projects to be able to remove 90% of ocean plastic by 2040. -- Make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay updated: bit.ly/371k8sN And follow The Ocean Cleanup on: Facebook: bit.ly/2QWgmLQ Twitter: bit.ly/2RqHqSk Instagram: bit.ly/2st9SKT