The first 100,000 kg of plastic has now been recovered from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP), The Ocean Cleanup, a non-profit organization engaged in removing plastic dumped in oceans, revealed in a LinkedIn post.
is developing technologies that can help remove plastics that are discarded into the oceans as well as intercept them in the rivers before they enter the larger water bodies. The organization's target is the GPGP in the North Pacific Ocean, where trash from countries in Asia, South America, and North America gathers into a large gyre of debris in the water.
After a few improvements, the sea anchors were dropped in favor of a water-borne parachute that can slow the system down but improves the ability to capture plastic. Dubbed, the apparatus is the first large-scale clean up system from the organization. After successfully testing the system over 12 weeks in 2021, it was assigned to its mission of collecting plastic ever since.
The continued efforts reached a major milestone recently, when the organization noted that it had cleared up 223,445 pounds of plastic so far. This has happened through 45 extraction trips that have seen the system sweep about 1158 sq. miles of the ocean, the size of Rhode Island. In an Instagram post, the founder and CEO, Boyan Slat, shared some exciting findings from the recoveries they have made so far.
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