I will mention. Ocean Cleanup has a 55 million Euro budget. Precious Plastic is being criticized for having squandered a 100k donation. That 550 times less.
Ocean Cleanup claims to have removed 21,000 metric tons of plastic in its existence.
If we assume linear growth in budget, that's $330M Euro / 21k ton = 15,000 Euro per ton of garbage.
About 10 million tons of plastic end up in the ocean each year, so over their history, they've cleaned up 0.2% of the annual input.
I can't really comment if any of that good or bad, but I thought numbers (even if squishy estimates) would be helpful to inform the discussion.
Ocean Cleanup claims to have removed 21,000 metric tons of plastic in its existence.
If we assume linear growth in budget, that's $330M Euro / 21k ton = 15,000 Euro per ton of garbage.
About 10 million tons of plastic end up in the ocean each year, so over their history, they've cleaned up 0.2% of the annual input.
I can't really comment if any of that good or bad, but I thought numbers (even if squishy estimates) would be helpful to inform the discussion.