The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is not an island of trash; it resembles a plastic soup, with areas of higher plastic concentration (hotspots) spread over an estimated surface area of 1.6 million square kilometers—three times the size of France. To improve the efficiency of our cleanup operations and address the urgency of the plastic pollution problem in the GPGP, this year we are developing methods to use GPS trackers and drones to locate plastic hotspots in real time. These innovations will he

Plastic extraction #106 from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Watch till the end for a demonstration of one of the quite common items we find among our catch. 👀 | The Ocean Cleanup

According to our projections, we expect to be able to clean the entire Great Pacific Garbage Patch (containing 100,000,000kg of plastic) using ten systems based on System 03. This animated video shows our vision of this future: | The Ocean Cleanup