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Slat: Ocean Cleanup technology will be ready to scale by late 2024
“And yeah, I think in about nine months time, we should be at the point that we can say, Hey, we're ready. We're ready for this. The technology is ready. Now it's just up to the willingness of the world to make this happen and make it scale.”
Slat: Ocean Cleanup lost $10M when first 2018 system broke
“So back in 2018, you know, of course we had done hundreds of scale model tests, lab tests, et cetera, but then we said, okay, let's just build the full scale thing in one go. It was this big launch in San Francisco, took the thing out. It was you know, we were…”
Slat: 1% of rivers produce roughly 80% of global river plastic emissions
“And what we found is that just one percent of the world's rivers do, you know, roughly 80% of all the plastic emissions. So it's very concentrated, and mostly in, indeed, these, you know, big coastal cities in, in middle-income countries.”
Slat: Ocean Cleanup bycatch rate averages roughly 0.1%
“Regular fisheries usually has a bycatch rate of around, you know, 10, 15% on average. I mean, arguably a hundred percent because the thing they do is catch sealant. But yeah, we have average roughly 0.1%.”
Slat: Ocean Cleanup sweeps a football field of ocean every five seconds
“It sweeps an area of ocean clean the size of a football field every five seconds.”
Slat: Ocean Cleanup system is largest self-propelled ocean system at 1.5 miles
“It's the largest self-propelled system ever deployed on the ocean. It's a mile and a half long, approximately.”
Slat: Great Pacific Garbage Patch holds roughly 250 million pounds of plastic
“So there are five areas in the world where the plastic, once it's in the ocean, converges and concentrates. The largest one is this Great Pacific Garbage Patch between Hawaii and California. And yeah, there's roughly two hundred and fifty million pounds of pla…”
Slat: A Malaysian real estate developer funds local Ocean Cleanup operations
“So for example, Malaysia there, it's a local real estate developer that is our boots on the ground. You know, they, Want to develop real estate along the river, but their problem is that it's one of the most polluting rivers in the world. So by supporting us, …”