62K views · 4.9K reactions | BREAKING: The Ocean Cleanup has now removed 200,000 kg from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. System 002/B has made its first extraction of 2023 - 6260 kg of plastic out of the GPGP. This brings us to an exciting milestone - together, we have now cleaned up over 200,000 kg of plastic from the GPGP. | The Ocean Cleanup | Facebook

Footage of Yesterday’s extraction in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Another good catch in the bank for System 002. On to the next one. | The Ocean Cleanup

942K views · 8.8K reactions | Have you heard of the Great Pacific...

The Dutch-led effort to clean the Great Pacific Garbage Patch has moved far beyond its experimental beginnings. Early 600-meter systems proved that large-scale plastic capture was possible. Today, the operation is defined by System 03, a platform designed to work at an industrial scale that would have seemed unrealistic only a few years ago. Developed by The Ocean Cleanup, System 03 is a 2,200-meter U-shaped floating barrier. By the mid-2020s, the project reached a critical proof-of-scale phase,