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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.
Oceana was established in 2001 by an international group of leading foundations including the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Sandler Foundation, and The Pew Charitable Trusts. 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]
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.
Boyan Slat, 20, founder of The Ocean Cleanup, has created a way that will help put an end to the plastic pollution problem in world oceans. Largest ocean cleanup in history set for 2016 Skip to ...
[4] [7] [5] During Clean Ocean Action's clean-up activities, the organization collects data to understand and identify the cause of harm to the environment by gathering littered trashes. [3] [7] [8] Their research is displayed to federal and state programs in order to uphold heavier enforcement on protecting the ocean. [3] [6] [8] [9]
The Ocean Foundation was founded by underwater photographer Wolcott Henry. [3] It began as the Coral Reef Foundation with "a group of like-minded coral conservation experts, venture capitalists and philanthropy colleagues...providing both expert advice about conservation projects and easy mechanisms for giving". [4]
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 ).