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The Ocean Cleanup was founded in 2013 by Boyan Slat, a Dutch inventor [3] [4] [5] who serves as its CEO. It develops both ocean and river based catch systems. Its ocean system consists of a funnel shaped floating barrier which is towed by two ships. The ocean system is deployed in oceanic gyres to collect marine debris. [6]
The group's mission is to develop advanced technologies to rid the world's oceans of plastic. [11] It raised US$2.2 million through a crowd funding campaign with the help of 38,000 donors from 160 countries. [12] In June 2014, the Ocean Cleanup published a 528-page feasibility study [13] about the project's potential.
The Ocean Cleanup, a Dutch nonprofit organization, has projected that the blight on the world's largest ocean could be removed within a decade and for around $7.5 billion.
Team Seas aimed to remove 30,000,000 pounds (14,000,000 kg) of marine debris from the ocean by the end of 2021 by raising 30 million dollars, with one pound removed for every dollar donated. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The project was mass released over the internet on many different social media platforms on Friday October 29, 2021, at 1 PM ( PT ).
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This followed a 1999 study they commissioned, which found that less than 0.5% of all resources spent by U.S. environmental nonprofit groups were used for ocean conservation. [7] In 2001, Oceana absorbed The Ocean Law Project, which was also created by The Pew Charitable Trusts, for Oceana's legal branch.
A fact from The Ocean Cleanup appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 9 November 2015 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that starting in 2020, The Ocean Cleanup will endeavour to rid the Great Pacific garbage patch of plastic debris?
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