Eine Reinigungsgruppe ist auf dem besten Weg, den Great Pacific Garbage Patch zu beseitigen | Sie behauptet, dass sie den Patch innerhalb von nur fünf Jahren beseitigen kann.

From the article: Nonprofit environmental organization the Ocean Cleanup has announced that it’s on track to eliminate the Great Pacific Garbage Patch by 2034.

If it can get the necessary funds, that is. In a [press release](https://theoceancleanup.com/press/press-releases/the-great-pacific-garbage-patch-can-be-cleaned-for-7-5-billion/), the organization claimed that eliminating the patch once and for all would cost a whopping $7.5 billion — the “first time both a cost and a timeline has been placed on ridding the Pacific Ocean of the environmental hazard.”

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a name given to an estimated 79,000 metric tons of plastic waste floating in the ocean in an area roughly twice the size of Texas. The Ocean Cleanup has made it its mission to fish it out of the water piece by piece.

“Today’s announcement is clear: clean oceans can be achieved in a manageable time and for a clear cost,” said founder and CEO Boyan Slat in a statement. “Through the hard work of the past ten years, humanity has the tools needed to clean up the ocean.”

7.5B seems like a lot but that’s nothing. This is about will not money. I wish them luck and I wish for patch prevention policies to have more teeth.

Southeast Asia: “well now I’m gonna dump plastic into ocean even harder!”