# Ocean Cleanup Vs Other Non Profits

**URL:** <https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/ocean-cleanup-vs-other-non-profits/63744>\
**Category:** Professional Mariner Forum\
**Created:** [July 28, 2022, 7:29pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/ocean-cleanup-vs-other-non-profits/63744 "2022-07-28T19:29:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![PDCMATE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/2acd7d/32.png) [@PDCMATE](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/PDCMATE)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2022, 7:29pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/ocean-cleanup-vs-other-non-profits/63744/1 "2022-07-28T19:29:44Z")

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So, they were able to cleanup 110 tons of garbage, within 1 year deployed.  
Avg cost of OSV day rate: $10,000 per day (2 OSVs = $20,000) - doesn’t include Fuel, doesn’t take into account amount of plastic/debris captured vs emission of GHG for the two OSV’s)

I still think when you take an average of $7400 per kg of plastic/debris recovered. That money could be used for so many other cleanup groups and volunteer groups, such as Eyesea and others.

> **[Ocean Cleanup Project Achieves Major Milestone in Great Pacific Garbage Patch](https://gcaptain.com/ocean-cleanup-project-acheives-major-milestone-in-great-pacific-garbage-patch/)**
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> The largest and most ambitious ocean cleanup project in history is claiming its first 100,000 kg of plastic removed from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The company behind the project,...

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**Author:** ![Sand\_Pebble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Sand\_Pebble](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Sand_Pebble)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2022, 10:49pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/ocean-cleanup-vs-other-non-profits/63744/2 "2022-07-28T22:49:00Z")

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> [@PDCMATE](#):
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> to cleanup 110 tons of garbage, within 1 year deployed.

I suspect a 30 yr old modified shrimp boat designed to skim off the surface could bring in that much plastic every week right off the coast of South Korea. Why waste so much efforts picking up plastics already disintegrated by the sea when we have so much solids in the pipeline to replace it?

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**Author:** ![ombugge](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/ombugge/32/11217_2.png) [@ombugge](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ombugge)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2022, 4:04pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/ocean-cleanup-vs-other-non-profits/63744/3 "2022-11-11T16:04:29Z")

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> [@Sand\_Pebble](#):
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> I suspect a 30 yr old modified shrimp boat designed to skim off the surface could bring in that much plastic every week.

Maybe off the mouth of Mississippi.

Not the newest of news, but it tell you something about the size of this project, or at least the nets in use:  
[The world's largest cleanup | Maritimt Magasin](https://maritimt.com/en/magasin/worlds-largest-cleanup).

> [@Sand\_Pebble](#):
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> Why waste so much efforts picking up plastics already disintegrated by the sea when we have so much solids in the pipeline to replace it?

Because most fish don’t eat plastic bottles but they do eat plastic fragments and they may end up on your dinner table, or at McDonald’s as “Filet of Fish”.