As of now, they have three of them in the Dominican Republic and Indonesia. The non-profit organization has first proven its effectiveness in cleaning up plastics with their interceptors that catch garbage floating down the rivers. It is a U-shaped floating barrier that is 2,000 feet long. The Ocean CleanUp uses its cleanup tool called System 001 or also called Wilson, to collect plastics from the ocean's surface. "The purchase of one pair of sunglasses will fund the cleanup of up to 20 football fields of plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch," Slat said. All proceeds will go to the company's mission of removing plastic waste from the ocean.Īccording to CNET's report, The Ocean CleanUp sorts and cleans the different types of plastic before shredding it to form small green pellets molded into different products like frames for sunglasses. On October 24, The Ocean CleanUp announced its latest creation, a pair of sunglasses with frames made from the plastics found in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.Īccording to Slat, the sunglasses costs $199 and are now available on their website. Luckily they did and is now introducing their first product to the market. That makes recycling challenging, and at some point, they doubted that they could do it.
The material which stayed for too long in the ocean are already brittle and has degraded, not to mention mixed with other garbage. Recycling trash from the ocean has proven to be challenging as the materials they got from the ocean have already been there for many decades, said Boyan Slat, the CEO and founder of The Ocean CleanUp.
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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the part of the North Pacific Ocean where marine debris ends up.īut the non-profit organization's goal is not only to collect garbage from the ocean but to make innovative solutions by creating usable products from ocean garbage. In 2019, The Ocean CleanUp harvested its first load of plastic waste from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch during a pilot test of its trash-fighting technology.
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