The way I see it, one problem at a time. This is making a very good effort for the specific problem he chose.

Truly.....the only way to stop the plastic is to go strictly after the manufacturers. Have them switch their products to NOT plastic. Use biodegrade options instead. Then they could also just penalize companies that use plastic.

This is a great organization, and we can all do our part to help clean up the planet. Join a clean-up group, adopt a highway, or at the very least pick up litter when we see it. Whenever I go for my daily walk, I carry a litter bag so that if I find trash on my walk, I pick it up and throw it away when I return home. When I'm going shopping, if I see litter, I pick it up and throw it away. All that trash could end up in rivers and streams and end up in lakes and oceans. Any effort, big or small, is helpful. Educating young people is helping the next generation.

@@Lori-lp6uc Right. In Japan, an island country where they don't have the physical space to dump everything in a landfill, they burn most of it. It's actually a very clean country, but it's quite difficult to find a public trash receptacle. A lot of people bring a plastic bag in the car and bring home any trash they produce when they're out. And recycling programs are quite strict. In the rural town where I lived, there was 1 hour a month, 8-9 a.m. on a Sunday, in which carefully-separated recyclables could be dropped off in the community center parking lot with various stations that were manned by community volunteers on a rotation. It's a nice system and the collectivist culture promoted cooperation by all. There will always be 'stragglers', though. My time there gave me a new, deeper perspective on social cooperation. Now, living in the States again, it bothers me even more when I see someone flick a cigarette on the ground or let a wrapper blow away in the wind. And to hear people complain about recycling, when all you have to do is throw everything into a bin in bulk and it magically disappears. Granted, a good percentage of it gets dumped in a landfill anyway. But I don't think that's a reason to stop trying altogether. We really take our relatively comfortable, luxurious lifestyles for granted. Each person has to feel compelled to take responsibility for their own waste. But I feel that the culture of individualism leads to us favoring our own time & resources over others'. There's so much potential left on the table...

@@ItchyKneeSon Japan seems like a beautiful place to live.💖The landscape and the culture. If only people would leave their negative perspectives and look for ways to help. When we help others, we improve ourselves.

That's because he actually cares about the outcome rather than doing it only to farm good PR.

he probably knows better than you or I that the real problem is inequality and that what he is doing has a negligible impact on the resultant pollution created by it...

Makes me hate bein part of this species.

He is selling plastic bracelets not cleaning the Oceans. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

This man has done more for the environment then the whole EPA and FDA for the last decade.

Полностью согласен с такими словами... Разумно сказано

Repent to Jesus Christ “Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.” ‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭4‬:‭32‬ ‭NIV‬‬ U

@@repentandbelieveinJesusChrist3 Jai shree Krishna 🤗🤗

@@repentandbelieveinJesusChrist3 random bible quote = im so smart hurdurrr. repeat hurdurrr im so smart and holy.

No one is trying to stop them.

@@repentandbelieveinJesusChrist3 EW, GET THAT BIBLE SHIT OUT OF HERE!

agree damn them so called experts that does not contribute at all but just bla bla bla

Repent to Jesus Christ “Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.” ‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭4‬:‭32‬ ‭NIV‬‬ ht

I really like he river systems because they run off solar, are the team working on a sea version that doesn't run off millions of litres of diesel for those big ships pulling nets?

​@@morrisonmeister The river systems are likely mostly stationary so only require power to operate the conveyor and other minor systems; not navigate. Ocean ships travel long distances and use a ton of energy. That isn't going to be "green" any time soon.

They should honestly just have a monitoring station on the rivers that do the most polluting and issue fines to the countries which let it spew everywhere

Absolutly agree, it's a shame to read some other comments here that critise only but not coming up with better sollutions. And then what? they probably turn their back to this topic and not supporting anything that would actually help. I donated money to ocean cleanup some years ago, because I really like that they take action and do tons of research. Really happy to see the updates on their intercepters as well. Hope to see more collaberations between companys and countrys that clean the ocean and rivers. Since it's a global problem, that's what we truely need.

​@Nekr0n35 ,there's a phrase someone said to me, and it's, "if you bring up an issue but don't have a solution or help to have one, you're just whining." I was going to make an identical comment to yours but you nailed perfectly. Absolute shame on critics without constructive feedback. Shame they will never change, and if they ever become more productive than being a keyboard warrior, then I'd be glad to hear.

yes but the problem is that only a few people are doing this... while most other people are not only killing women and children but squatting on stolen land !

@@supernormalcognition women and children? do men not get killed or am i missing the point?

Repent to Jesus Christ “Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.” ‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭4‬:‭32‬ ‭NIV‬‬ U

@@repentandbelieveinJesusChrist3 well done! China wants to end poverty and so your N A S T Y Z I O N I S T H I N D U Government should be A S H A M E D of themselves ! BIG UP CHINA SEEK KNOWLEDGE AS FAR ANCIENT SUFI CHINA !!!!!!!

If Musk or Arnault or Bezos or Ellison would invest like 5% of their net worth, there would be no more trash... But the small people trying their best get critiqued

some country already build a generator for electricity using those garbage as fuel gathered from ocean, this should be impelemented on any country to resolve this,

Excellent point. Extend that idea to all packaging. Make all packaging biodegradable.

It's a bit hilarious because clay pots have been around for thousands of years, are cheap, abundant and fit for purpose

Lol... Clay n acrilic pots been around .....

​@@johntaylor4817 i read that cellophane is biodegradable.. why not us it for food packaging ?

Paper pots exists and you can compost them directly next to the plant.

ocean cleanup is bs. river collecting is great though!

If someone by their own intuition thinks throwing garbage into their water source is a good idea, good luck simply reteaching that. Its why some continents are nicer than others

@@alwaysbanned4812 i have several friends that i guarantee you if they were in that situation, they'd be throwing their trash in rivers. a lot of people don't care about recycling and litter everywhere, but suddenly there's something wrong when someone from a third world country does it

The amount of garbage going into waterways in Cairo and Giza was astounding. By far, the worst that I have personally witnessed.

It's so easy to say "they just need this, or that, they should do this" all by living in a Country that you were born into already having from the start. You have to understand other Countries are not just as well off. In order for this to happen, a lot of factors are needed, DR main export is Cocoa beans(9th largest), as well tourism, not a lot of wealth being generated... You should really understand what the real world is like first.

Suprise you support colonialism.

I believe everyone plays a role in it, be it the designers or the end users. But you're right! Product designers and manufactures should think not only about the use of their products, but also its end of life management...

Another approach is to get rid of the idea of "away". Treat the materials, products, by-products as if you will always have them around you.

I am thinking about stop big corporations to sell items in plastic and individual packs. We can use our multiple useful bottles for buying water, juice, milk, cola, yogurts directly from big containers at supermarkets. Stop to pack every six apples, every 10 raddish etc. And use our shoppers for fruit and vegetables. And stop to use bin plastic sacks. We definitely not so stupid to not be able to separate food waste from plastic, glass etc. Food waste could be packed to the biosacks.

I am thinking about supermarkets which use plastic as minimum and reusable as it possible. All milk, water, juice and cola in big cont

This is important.

Just curious - where do you live?

Donating might help

Actually, Earth does not care. :)

I am an Indian. It took about a decade to generate awareness. Didn't work that much. But attaching glamor to not using plastic works better on those who want to appear elite. No matter how educated or aware, people just don't throw stuff properly. A dustbin is right there, they would still throw it into the stream.

⁠​⁠@@alankritakaushalwhen I was younger my grandparents would make me throw trash out of the window of the car and even if I said no they would say “everybody does it it’s fine” definitely a cultural issue not about awareness

There is no single solution that solves the entire garbage problem, it's way too complex. Ocean Cleanup acknowledge this themselves. That doesn't mean we should give up; we need a combination of different solutions and this system does great at what it does!

@@jekentmenietje agreed

Mr.beast is paid by youtube .he is a plant .

Better to have hundreds of thousands of tons of plastic waste sitting around in giant bins somewhere than floating in the ocean while we figure out what to do with it.

I live in Santo Domingo, the first location they showed and all that plastic just went to the landfill. That location specifically they showed has issues on it's own because it getting more trash than it can handle. There was one time where it got on fire and all the city was cloudy and with smoke. So I agree, it's important what they are doing but also find a way to recycle the plastic that is collected.

Easier said than done

The world runs on MONEY. People make the plastic to make money, people use/buy the plastic because it is the lowest cost. All governments have to agree to make plastic production illegal. Unlike alcohol production, no one can easily mass manufacture plastic in their basement to bypass the law. Governments making plastic production illegal AND enforcing it, is not going to happen in my opinion.

imagine commenting without watching the whole video.

Tell that to the third world countries that keep dumping it

Even if that happened there would be still be stuff already in the ocean....

I bet!!!!!

Ocean Cleanup has a good UKposts channel where they post update videos on the project.

@@Am-graphix yes, I've watched it, but I wanted an independent channel that talked about the pro and the cons and didn't either make it the devil or the best thing ever

Wall E be like

I've been supporting Boyn Slat for many years now. He is proactive, scientist and engineer and is also hugely into plastic recycling. Unlike those eco activists who just harrass ppl and yap their mouth off without knowing nothing. He never collaborates or endorses the crazies.

Recycling is a scam

@@FairyMoonTarot not if it’s done right

It is a shame that Norway larps as an eco friendly country while funding all of that with North Sea Oil.

@@FairyMoonTarot Recycling plastic releases much more CO2 than producing new plastic. But that doesn’t mean we can let plastic pollution grow. Not everything is about air pollution. Soil and water polution are important as well.

@@thekraken1173 Yes, its kinda weird the total amount of oil usage is still going up. But there is huge difference in who sells the oil on the market. I rather buy oil extracted on more eco friendly methods. And where the money goes into funding a whole country. Instead of large private oil companies, where all the money goes into pockets of rich people. In Norway the money is used better, and actually spent on saving the forest and eco friendly investments. As long as the worlds still runs on oil, it has to come from someone. So better Norway than oil barons which support terrorism and child labor.

which is impossible

No. We should minimize our dependence on plastic products and make a move toward biodegradable containers.

There are no viable eco friendly alternatives to consumer plastics. Sad reality. For example if we try to replace consumer plastics with natural rubber, a lot of rainforests will be cut down for monoculture plantations. We are already running out of sand for glass making. We can’t replace plastic bottles with glass bottles. Paper and carboard products are a faster degrading material, but it will be eco friendly only if we don’t cut natural forests for paper. And forests will be cut down for paper plantations. However, we can choose between bad and worse. And plastics are definitely worse in my opinion. It is a bad material as well. While degrading it releases a lot of microplastic particles. I hate the fact that everything is made of plastic. I miss good old quality products that last decades. We should replace plastic injection machines with metal stamping machines. Aluminum stamping is the only realistic alternative to plastics for consumer plastics. However it is definitely not completely eco friendly, but it is more eco friendly.

That's another great point. Companies don't care about making products that last a lifetime. Even if we did that it would make a significant difference, the incentives aren't there unfortunately.

Well then u do it first. Use only cringy paper straws, wood forks and spoons, recycle yr pee like in waterworld. Plastic isn't the problem! Plasic is a resource just like oil and with human enginuity will find better ways of recycling. Now go back to yr yoga session with Greta T. cuk boi!

@@thekraken1173 U are not intelligent or educated enough. Most glass is recycled. Trees are always re-planted and harvested. Leaps in technology will create newer better ways. Less than 20 years ago u never thought u have a smart phone or that lithium batteries could exist. Or yet thought a rocket could re-land on earth using just it's boosters. Easy for u to yap yr mouth off, but don't do anything proactive.

​@@thekraken1173Come on. We can use glass bottles it would be enough if clients brought them back to clean it like in countries of USSR and Warsaw Pact. It's really ironic that Soviets were more aware about environment that people in USA

germany is a wealthy country, not all country has the resources to process waste and garbage. When government fails to do so, guess how people dispose their waste? It has to go somewhere

Most comes from fishing and countries without garbage collection. Even where there is trash collection at homes and businesses, some people who are driving or walking will just toss stuff instead of carrying it to their destination. There are also scams in the plastic recycling industry, so even plastic that was properly disposed of could still could get taken to some country and dumped instead of sorted and recycled.

You must be joking. Think just 30 years ago. Do people in Germany do proper recycling? It takes time, money and education to develop a good recycling system

@@tidusfantasy I know. Im just concerned Im doing something wrong (my genetically determined german angst kicks in) :D

@@youtubehand Look, next to the yellow trashcan there is a black one for general waste and an blue one for paper. I can hardly imagine that if one throws plastic into one of these that it gets an official ticket right to the ocean. If my country is part of the problem (which I assume), Id like to know where in the process things are going wrong.

1st world countries actually produce more waste, but we can dispose of it properly. Second and third world countries don't have places to throw away stuff, no trash services, etc.

@@nicki8731we should also stop shipping out waste to other countries

You make an excellent point, but gaining government cooperation in order to create legislation takes years. This young man is doing something now, and fortunately, slowly gaining the world's attention.

Yes, they produce plastic bottles, pushes coca cola on the markets in developing countries, and then a consumer is held responsible for the pollution and needs to recycle lol

Bbq

They don´t/can´t

@@hewi1352 oh..

You're 34 and your jealous of the progress that younger guy is achieving.

@@Tao_Tology I don't think they're jealous or making fun of the dude in the video, I think theyre making fun of themselves

@@beverlyl2385 No, they were serious.

@@Tao_Tology they were making fun of themselves lol. it was sarcastic....

@@beverlyl2385 uhuh......