Nitin Prasad

🇳🇿🇮🇳 Bharat | Product ~ Plant based ~ Close to Zero waste ~ Need to bike and walk more! ~ Opinions are my own

[Anand Malligavad @AMalligavad]

This is about 18 acres Lake was dry dead brought back to life 💧🐠🌳

[The Ocean Cleanup @TheOceanCleanup]

So far, we have removed over 20,000,000 kg (over 44 million lb) of trash from oceans and rivers worldwide. Here are some examples to put this number into context:

[The Ocean Cleanup @TheOceanCleanup]

We stopped dozens of trash floods like this in Guatemala this year. 🇬🇹

[The Ocean Cleanup @TheOceanCleanup]

We have just completed the last trip to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch for 2024, resulting in our total catch of over 500,000 kg (1.1m lb) from the GPGP so far.

Here are some facts about our ocean operations to date:

[The Ocean Cleanup @TheOceanCleanup]

This is how Interceptors 006 and 021 are working side by side in Guatemala to intercept plastic before it reaches the Gulf of Honduras.🇬🇹

[Boyan Slat @BoyanSlat]

One underappreciated fact about the ocean plastic problem is that plastic pollution is persistent in some places but not in others.

For most of the world's oceans, plastic only persists for a few weeks or months before ending up back on land. In our models, we see that 80% leaves the ocean again within a month and 97% within a year.

What this means is that, when we reduce the amount of plastic flowing into the ocean, we should see an almost immediate reduction in the amount of plastic in the ocean.

It also means that most plastic pollution you see is hyper-local. Unlike something like CO₂, countries and cities therefore have a "selfish" incentive to curb their plastic emissions. For example, want to eliminate plastic pollution in Bali's waters and coastlines? Then stop plastic from leaking from Bali's towns and cities!

Another consequence is that, for most of the world's oceans, there is no need to sweep the ocean surface; it cleanses itself once we stop putting new waste in.

The exception to this is the ocean garbage patches, where currents trap the plastic and keep the trash away from coastlines, preventing it from washing up.

This is why The Ocean Cleanup employs a two-pronged approach: intercepting plastic in rivers to stop inflow and cleaning up the legacy pollution in the ocean garbage patches.

[Boyan Slat @BoyanSlat]

Need 5 or 6 more doublings to intercept all global plastic emissions

[The Ocean Cleanup @TheOceanCleanup]

One more step towards starting to tackle plastic pollution in Mumbai's rivers.🇮🇳

[The Ocean Cleanup @TheOceanCleanup]

Location of our next Interceptor deployment - coming soon.

[Boyan Slat @BoyanSlat]

The Ocean Cleanup is coming to India 🇮🇳

[The Ocean Cleanup @TheOceanCleanup]

Latest from Guatemala: Interceptor 021 has been deployed and is showing a promising start.

[Boyan Slat @BoyanSlat]

Cost of the Las Vegas Sphere: $2.3B

Cost of cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (projected): $4B

It literally takes two big balls to clean the ocean.

[Boyan Slat @BoyanSlat]

Humanity now has the technology to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in a fast and affordable way.

We now call upon the world to make it happen!

[The Ocean Cleanup @TheOceanCleanup]

Plastic extraction #106 from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch:

[The Ocean Cleanup @TheOceanCleanup]

guess where?

[The Ocean Cleanup @TheOceanCleanup]

A few moments from Love Tomorrow, where our Founder & CEO @BoyanSlat shared some insights into our recent milestone of 15,000,000 kg of trash removed from oceans and rivers worldwide, how we got here, and what's next on the agenda this year.

[Neal Taparia @nealtaparia]

Your 9-to-5 job is dying.

By 2034, it'll be extinct.

That's Reid Hoffman's latest prediction – the founder of LinkedIn who predicted the rise of social media in 1997.

Here's what he said next:

[The Ocean Cleanup @TheOceanCleanup]

Impact update: we have passed a total of 15,000,000 kg of trash removed from oceans and rivers worldwide. More river deployments coming soon.

[Boyan Slat @BoyanSlat]

During the first 8 years of The Ocean Cleanup, we collected 314,000 kg of trash.

We're now collecting the same amount... every 4.5 days.

[Nitin Prasad @nitinprasad]

Finance turns 7 event! #binance Anyone else here?