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and movin yeah I'm the CEO of the ocean cleaner it's the ocean cleanups mission to develop advanced technologies to read the world's oceans of plastic we want to reduce the concentration of floating plastic in the oceans with ninety percent by 2040 system one is a floating tube a floatation device with a skirts attached beneath it the skirt is underwater for about three meters that system will move around the ocean in a c-shape or au shape catching up on the plastic collecting it inside of it we care so much about the marine life and how much harm the plastic is doing to it so in designing the system we've taken great care not to have any adverse effects effect on the wildlife that's out there our system is not propelled at all apart from the natural forces of the ocean it is proposed by the forces of nature it is designed to be a passive cleaning-up system my name is lo Halyburton I'm the lead oceanographer for the ocean cleanup and basically we study plastic pollution in the ocean so means understanding the sources the transport and the fate of plastic in the ocean think we're saying that macro plastic pollution and particular is increasing substantially over the last few years and I think it's very important to understand that we need to stop putting plastic in the ocean so plastic are being released in the ocean and they basically move with currents with wind and wave and accumulates in the subtropical waters in the North Pacific particularly in what we call the subtropical gyre and those are areas where rescue the currents are converging and marine debris accumulates it does it does migrates but it stays relatively in the same area but it moves there is five accumulation zone the same same type so one in each oceanic person we believe the one in the North Pacific is the largest I think they can start by reducing the use of plastic parts few single-use plastic I think is is one one big topic and and also I think that cleanup matters you know anytime you go to the beach to reverse forest in natural environments if you find trash it's always good to just pick it up and put in the bin right our system one is a better type version it's the minimum viable product so and it actually works so it is the intensive start cleaning up but we want to learn from it for this first year of operation and collects a lot of valuable information in order to be able to clean up 50% in five years we need multiple clean up systems so we are now launching our first system the system one which will prove the concepts and will give us enough information so that we can implement it in a redesign in the next generation of clean up system which should be even bigger and better and more productive we intend to scale up and we need a fleet of about 60 of those types of systems we're in a bit of a hurry because we do see the risk of the plastic that's currently out there breaking down into smaller pieces which will cause even more harm so we really want to get as much out now that it's still big as soon as we can so we do have some ambitions ambitious plans to scale up fast we believe that we will have the fleet of 60 systems in operation by 2021 so for the next few months are going to be super tense this is this is an exciting moment but of course the moment were looking most forward to is to bring this first plastic back to shore it's you know because that means that it's proven technology and that's what we hope to achieve with this first system so the idea is that we take the plastic back to land and we work together with our recycling partners and the idea is that we can process that plastic and turn it into very nice desirable products that are durable designed to not end up back into the oceans and by selling those we actually help to to help fund the cleanup and fund the operation of the cleanup system so next few months I'll be really obsessively looking at the data that's coming in from the vessel from the data streams from the cleanup system which will hopefully then allow us to catch the first plastic and bring it to land