Ocean Protection
Solution:
The ocean is big. Cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch using conventional methods – vessels and nets – would take thousands of years and tens of billions of dollars to complete. The Ocean Cleanup passive systems are estimated to remove 50% of the Great Pacific Garbage patch in just five years, and at a fraction of the cost.
IMPACT:
Decades of research have provided clear evidence of the ocean’s central role in regulating the global climate system and buffering against the impacts of climate change. The ocean has absorbed over 90% of the heat from climate change and is the sink for roughly 30% of human-caused carbon dioxide emissions. That means that without healthy oceans as a buffer, heating from climate change would already be intolerable for much of life on earth. Source: Ocean Conservancy.
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