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- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been obsessed with technology.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a firm believer of the venture capitalist-style approach to solving problems. Rather than doing many small things that you hope add up, it's much more effective to work on projects that are high risk and high reward.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
We absolutely need to clean up the plastic that's already in the ocean. It won't go away by itself. But we do also need to make sure that no more plastic enters the oceans in the first place. These things should go hand in hand.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There will always be people saying things can't be done. And history shows that time and time again things 'couldn't be done' and they were done.
- Lazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
What humans aren't good at is trying to consume less, to consume less plastic, to not be lazy.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am quite obsessive by nature.
- Puzzle
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever you start working on something, you have to go about it with the underlying assumption that this puzzle has a solution, right? If you started a jigsaw puzzle not knowing whether all the pieces were in the box, it would not be a fun exercise.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look at climate change. That's a bigger problem than plastic, but we can't all focus on that and forget about plastic - that isn't how the world works. We can divide our attention across different things, using clean-up to strengthen prevention.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not a man of the sea.
- Garbage
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- Nov 07, 2020
These garbage patches won't go away by themselves.
- Negative
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't understand why 'obsessive' has a negative connotation, I'm an obsessive and I like it. I get an idea and I stick to it.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone said to me: 'Oh there's nothing you can do about plastic once it gets into the oceans,' and I wondered whether that was true.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's in my nature that when people say something is impossible I like to prove them wrong.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I envisioned an extremely long network of floating barriers - they're like curtains floating in the ocean which are attached to the seabed. So what happens is that the current comes around and plastic gets pushed towards these barriers. And because it's in a V-shape, the plastic gets push towards the center.
- Opinions
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think, in reality, opinions don't matter that much.
- Environment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Really, the ocean itself - that's really the thing that we're up against, the most destructive environment on the planet.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do enjoy being at the ocean, like most people, but not so much being on the ocean.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no better feeling than having an idea and seeing it become reality, emerging in the physical world.
- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I used to do sports at school, there were those children who were picked last. I just wasn't picked at all.
- Ocean
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- Nov 07, 2020
Coastlines are very effective ways of catching plastic. But the thing is, in those vast ocean garbage patches, there's simply no coastlines to catch any plastic. So we built our own artificial coastline.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
You go to a beach, you see a lot of plastic. It's out of the ocean, it stays out of the ocean, so that's good. But the thing is that in this Great Pacific garbage patch, this area twice the size of Texas, there's simply no coastlines to collect plastic. So the idea is to have these very long floating barriers.
- Harmed
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- Nov 07, 2020
We use a curtain, so we don't use a net, so there's nothing sea life can get entangled with. And also, the system moves very slowly. It moves around 4 inches per second on average. So really, the chances of sea life being harmed by this are very minimal.
- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get seasick quite badly.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The worst is yet to come, because all the plastic that is already out there is going to become more hazardous if we don't clean it up.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
About once a month, a vessel visits each of these clean-up systems, almost like a garbage truck of the ocean, would bring the plastic back to shore where it would then be processed and recycled into new products that we would then sell, at a premium, of course, because we could sell it as being made out of ocean plastic.
- Plastic
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's nice there is a cleanup system, but if it doesn't collect any plastic, it's not very useful.
- Gone
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've gone on a research expedition in the Atlantic Ocean before. I was sick for the entire week after that.
- Construction
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- Nov 07, 2020
The entire brain of the organization is here. The construction drawings and data processing all takes place in Rotterdam.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
This plastic doesn't go away by itself, and to just let hundreds of thousands of tons of plastic be out there to be fragmented into these small and dangerous microplastics to me seems like an unacceptable scenario.
- Nov 07, 2020
What I like best is sitting in a room together with really smart engineers thinking about a problem.
- Ocean
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- Nov 07, 2020
Can we build a system which is able to survive on the ocean for years? That is the key question we are trying to answer here with the North Sea prototype.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you look at the humanitarian issues - poverty, education, rights, violence - I think there are positive trends. But when you look at climate change, at plastic pollution and other forms of pollution, at overconsumption, it's a different story.
- Difference
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- Nov 07, 2020
The main principle behind the cleanup system is to have a difference in speed between the system and the plastic so that it goes faster than the plastic, and you can collect it.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
For 60 years man has been putting plastic into the ocean. And from that day onward we're also taking it back out again.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Truly, the only way to prove that we can rid the oceans of plastic is to actually go out there and deploy the world's first ocean-cleaning system.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our main funders... a lot of them are entrepreneurs and technologists themselves as well and familiar with iterative development processes.
- Plastic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Plastic doesn't have to be ocean plastic pollution.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to close the tap, which means preventing more plastic from reaching the ocean in the first place.
- Clean
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- Nov 07, 2020
We could truly make our oceans clean again.
- Forward
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- Nov 07, 2020
For society to progress, we should not only move forward but also clean up after ourselves.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Planning is extremely important, but at some point you have to go out and do it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020