The Trash Tour: Strangest Objects Recovered in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Boyan on board the Maersk Tender gives a tour of the strangest objects we recovered from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch during System 002 testing campaign. Subscribe to our channel: To help clean the oceans, visit: Trash accumulates in five ocean garbage patches, the largest one being the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, located between Hawaii and California. If left to circulate, the plastic will impact our ecosystems, health, and economies. Solving it requires a combination of closing the source, and cleaning up what has already accumulated in the ocean. The ocean is big. Cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch using conventional methods vessels and nets would take thousands of years and tens of billions of dollars to complete. After fleets of The Ocean Cleanup systems are deployed into every ocean gyre, combined with source reduction, The Ocean Cleanup projects to be able to remove 90 of ocean plastic by 2040. And follow The Ocean Cleanup on: