How System 002 Works | Cleaning Oceans | The Ocean Cleanup

System 002 is our first large-scale cleanup system. Its 12-week test campaign has now been concluded successfully – we have now reached proof of technology. Watch this video to see how it works. Subscribe to our channel: To learn more and support the cleanup, visit: -- Trash accumulates in five ocean garbage patches, the largest one being the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, located between Hawaii and California. If left to circulate, the plastic will impact our ecosystems, health, and economies. Solving it requires a combination of closing the source, and cleaning up what has already accumulated in the ocean. The ocean is big. Cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch using conventional methods – vessels and nets – would take thousands of years and tens of billions of dollars to complete. After fleets of The Ocean Cleanup systems are deployed into every ocean gyre, combined with source reduction, The Ocean Cleanup projects to be able to remove 90% of ocean pl