Yesterday, The Ocean Cleanup vessels returned to San Francisco with tons of trash onboard and exciting news on what it will concretely take to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

The real-world performance of System 03 during the past 12 months has demonstrated that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch can be cleaned in 10 years’ time at a cost of 7.5 billion dollars.

In the meantime, to accelerate the cleanup, we are developing methods to use GPS trackers and directly measure plastic concentrations with drones: hotspot hunting.

We now have the technology to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch; the only thing standing between the world and clean oceans is money. So we call upon the world—the governments, the companies, and the individuals—to make this cleanup happen.