About the Project
What year was the Ocean Cleanup project founded?
What is 2013
Who mistakes plastic for food?
What is animals
What does GPGP stand for?
What is Great Pacific Garbage Patch
How much funding has this organization secured?
What is 300 million
Who founded the Ocean Project?
What is dutch inventor Boyan Slat
Where does trash accumulate?
What is 5 garbage patches
How big is the Great Pacific garbage patch?
What is roughly twice the size of Texas
The GPGP is a name given to an estimated ______ metric tons of plastic waste floating in the Ocean.
What is 79,000
What equipment does the project use to collect the plastic from the ocean?
What is floating barriers with submerged nets
How many pieces of plastic currently litter the ocean?
What is 5 trillion
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the largest of the ____ offshore plastic accumulation zones in the world’s oceans
What is five
How many kilos of floating plastic have been removed from the GPGP over 23 trips?
What is 500,600 kilos
What are they using to capture and extract plastic before it can reach the ocean from the worlds most polluted rivers?
What is garbage interceptors
This project captures plastics ranging from ____ to ____ sizes of debris?
What is small to large
What percent of plastic in the GPGP originates from fishing?
What is 75%
What percent of plastic sinks because of its low buoyancy?
What is nearly 50%
The Project aims to cleanup ___ percent of floating ocean plastic by 2040
What is 90
What process is disrupted because of microplastics?
What is oceanic carbon sequestration
Where is the GPGP located?
What is in between California and Hawaii
Eliminating the GPGP once and for all would cost how much?
What is $7.5 billion