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How System 03 cleans the Great Pacific Garbage Patch - The Ocean Cleanup (Original Post)
OKIsItJustMe
Sep 2023
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Fascinating! I wonder what percentage of the plastic that is actually out there gets removed. nt
CaliforniaPeggy
Sep 2023
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OAITW r.2.0
(28,392 posts)1. Certainly about time.
There ought to be a lot more systems like like this. Rather than presort, this boat should simply haul it in and put the captured plastic on one massive conveyer that can sort by plastic type.
OKIsItJustMe
(20,771 posts)4. System 03 is the latest design
The plan, now that they have a proven design is to produce more.
https://theoceancleanup.com/oceans/
SCALING UP
We captured our first plastic from the GPGP in 2019 and in 2021 we reached proven technology. Today, our total catch runs to hundreds of tons and counting, and as we continuously improve our operations, our catches become larger and more reliable. In 2022, we began transitioning to the three-times larger System 03 by upgrading and replacing components gradually while continuing to harvest plastic. In August 2023, System 03 was deployed to the GPGP for the first time. Cleaning the entire GPGP requires a fleet of cleaning systems, and we believe that System 03 will allow us to develop our blueprint for that scale-up, all while continuing to extract unprecedented amounts of plastic.
OAITW r.2.0
(28,392 posts)6. Are they publicly traded?
An IPO, given their mission statement, might bring a shit-ton of investors.
OKIsItJustMe
(20,771 posts)9. They call their "investors" "donors."
OAITW r.2.0
(28,392 posts)10. And that's a good thing.
If the concept is validated, we ought to deploy everywhere, at world scale levels. That takes big money.
CaliforniaPeggy
(152,101 posts)2. Fascinating! I wonder what percentage of the plastic that is actually out there gets removed. nt
OKIsItJustMe
(20,771 posts)5. They're not deployed at scale yet (see above)
https://theoceancleanup.com/oceans/
EXPECTED IMPACT
Our floating systems are designed to capture plastics ranging from small pieces, just millimeters in size, up to large debris, including massive, discarded fishing nets (ghost nets), which can be tens of meters wide.
Modeling predicts we need around 10 full-size systems to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
After fleets of systems are deployed into every ocean gyre, combined with source reduction, The Ocean Cleanup projects to be able to remove 90% of floating ocean plastic by 2040.
EXPECTED IMPACT
Our floating systems are designed to capture plastics ranging from small pieces, just millimeters in size, up to large debris, including massive, discarded fishing nets (ghost nets), which can be tens of meters wide.
Modeling predicts we need around 10 full-size systems to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
After fleets of systems are deployed into every ocean gyre, combined with source reduction, The Ocean Cleanup projects to be able to remove 90% of floating ocean plastic by 2040.
OAITW r.2.0
(28,392 posts)7. Ghost nets kill a lot of sea life...
That's a huge positive, all in itself. I love that the concept is proofed...how do we scale it up? Nation-level?
OKIsItJustMe
(20,771 posts)11. Well, now that they have developed a system which is working well...
Its taken them years of iterative design (which was the plan all along, test, redesign, test, redesign.)
https://theoceancleanup.com/partners/
CaliforniaPeggy
(152,101 posts)8. Thanks for the info. I am encouraged! nt
2naSalit
(92,728 posts)3. K&R