Chasing Down Marine Plastic Pollution With The Ocean Cleanup
Nonprofit organization has recovered 10 million kilograms of marine waste.
Marine plastic waste is persistent in the environment, a hazard to wildlife and accumulating year after year. The Ocean Cleanup is a nonprofit environmental engineering organization that is meeting this problem directly by actually going out into the waterways and oceans and cleaning it up. So far, it has recovered over 10 million kg (22 million lbs) of plastic waste, and has a goal of recovering 90% of floating ocean waste by 2030.
Watch our conversation with Stella van den Berg, catch management director at the Ocean Cleanup, to learn about how the nonprofit recovers plastic that leaks out of the supply, distribution, and waste management systems and what can be done with the material once it is back on land.
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