Can the large Pacific trash block be cleaned?

When the world faces increasingly larger environmental problems, a news that fills us with hope: Ocean Cleanup’s environmental organization aims to completely clean the Great Pacific Rubbish Girdle by 2034. This huge garbage island is covered with about 79.000 tons of plastic waste and its size is almost twice as Texas. For decades, the thought that this environmental disaster can come in our oceans, creates a huge excitement. But there is an obstacle: $7.5 billion. Ocean Cleanup’s founder and CEO Dyen Slat states that the organization can reach this big goal thanks to its innovative technologies that it works over the years. But it is necessary to provide financial support to take place. With Slat’s statement, "Today’s description is very clear: reaching clean oceans, possible at a certain time and cost. "
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What is the Large Pacific Rubbish Input?]
The large Pacific Rubbish Girde is a huge accumulation of plastic waste collected together with ocean discharges. These wastes are severely damaged by the ecosystem as it threatens sea life. Plastic pollution in the ocean is not only polluting the water, causing fish, sea birds and other living to swallow these wastes. Ocean Cleanup developed various technologies to bring solutions to this problem. System 03, the latest project of the organization, consists of a 1.4 miles long barrier, which collects filtered and plastic waste on the ocean. With this system, 1 million pounds of plastic waste are collected from now, but this is the only 0.5 percent of the trash inlet. The aim is to reach the full cleaning capacity by expanding operations in the following years. [

How much will it cost?
Ocean Cleanup for the full cleaning of the Great Pacific Rubbish Stock, announced a budget of $7.5 billion. Although this figure appears intimidating at first, the organization attracts a significant point. The annual money spent on Halloween decorations in the US is $10.6 billion. In addition, 1 percent of the annual net profits of plastic producers in the world will be able to finance this project. In short, the solution is under our hand; just need to direct the resources correctly.

Umut transmitter future
According to the explanations of Paint Slat, Ocean Cleanup’s technologies run faster than expected, the project cost can drop to 4 billion dollars and the trash can only be cleaned in 5 years. Slat has a call to world leaders and fund providers by specifying that this environmental disaster has been left without solutions for a very long time: "We have time to put this problem into date." Ocean Cleanup is also planning to do target-oriented work in areas where plastic accumulation is dense. Thus, it aims to accelerate its work and achieve more effective results.

What we can do?]
To support this huge project, it is not only a responsibility for major investors and world leaders. Individually, we can also provide our own battle against environmental pollution. Small but effective steps such as eating less plastic, paying attention to recycling, keeping our environment clean, can provide great contribution to the protection of oceans and nature. As a result, we need to consider what we can do to contribute to the solution, rather than being covered in hopeful against large problems such as the Great Pacific Rubbish Girde. Keeping the oceans clean, not only a handful of people, but the common task of all.