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Great informative video Roger, thanks for sharing...It is very disheartening to see how much plastic is washed up or floating on the worlds oceans and beaches just from watching other sailing channels. I live in the Great Barrier Reef region of northern Australia and thankfully don't see as much rubbish but I'm sure its here if you look hard enough. Once a year we have a clean up Australia day where people are encouraged to pick up rubbish in their neighbourhoods and it has been going for years and has been very successful. I agree with Rolf when he suggests that the plastic producing industries should be paying a fee of some kind for the disposal or recycling of plastic waste products. I think its great that the "In the same boat" organisation encourages and educates the younger generation about this problem and hopefully over time we will see less and less plastic pollution around the world! Cheers Roger, look forward to your next video.
Yes, I never seen it here in Norway either before I joined these guys for a day. That’s why I could not believe my eyes when I was there next to a 20 tons pile of plastic. Thank you!
11:17 I didn't quite get the link why Coco-Cola should be contributing to the clean up when 77% of the plastic comes from the fishing industry. If any industries should contributing apart from fishing it's oil and gas whos raw materials are used in the production of plastics in the first place (not all). If I'm honest I think microplastics are a bigger issue, which at the moment is slipping under the radar, out of sight out of mind.
It is easy to use Coca Cola as an example as it is a company known worl wide. There are many plastic bottles from Coca Cola to be found as well, and his point was that all industries contributing to the pollution should pay their small part.
@@SailMermaid Coca-Cola didn't discard the bottles into the environment the consumer did. Blaming Coca-Cola is like blaming car manufacturers for speeding, dangerous driving or drink driving. Should we blame McDonald's because some idiot can't put the wrapping in the bin when there finished. At some point we the consumer have to take responsibility, which as a group these people seem to be doing.
A man takes Dustin aside in the 1968 movie the Graduate and says to him, son, the future is in plastics! as the great plastic gyres slowly swirl in mid ocean .
Hello... I can understand the cost to transport the plastic waste to (I hope) a plastic recycler. But unless I missed in the conversation, does the recycler pay "in the same boat" for the plastic, once its delivered ? Matthew Kjellerson
No, it is the opposite. In The Same Boat pays 3Nok (about 30 Euro cent) pr. kg to deliver this plastic to a government waste collect station. It is insane!
Every company on the planet that produces plastics should be required to pay a recycling fee of so many $ per ton of plastic produced. The fee that is taken from these companies needs to be put into an environmental fund . The fund should be managed by the UN or by a non profit within each country where the funds are taken from the manufacturer’s. There needs to be new international laws written and enforced by an entity much like the UN. We need to take care of our planet and oceans if we continue on the path we are on the earth will be a waste land. And right now there is no other planet we can move too once we have destroyed this one ! Will our politicians ever recognized these environmental issues ? Will they ever put away their differences and act in a cohesive manner to clean up our beautiful planet ? I can only hope but my hope is starting to run out !
Sadly you are right. In the end it is always the consumer who pays the price, nomatter what. But yes, there needs to be some economic baite to make a change
Not sure I agree completely. Corporates won't change until we stand up and make them change. If we stop using their services, they will change, bbut if we don't challenge them they have no reason to.
they should pick that up for free. bullshit. find a chunk of land next door and sell all the plastic containers for 1/2 off normal price or something. like a plastic junkyard. (junkyards are for car parts here in the USA). but there are RV junkyards, boat junkyards, etc. take some pics, sell that plastic online.
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Great video Roger
Thank you!
Well done.
Thank you!
Great informative video Roger, thanks for sharing...It is very disheartening to see how much plastic is washed up or floating on the worlds oceans and beaches just from watching other sailing channels. I live in the Great Barrier Reef region of northern Australia and thankfully don't see as much rubbish but I'm sure its here if you look hard enough.
Once a year we have a clean up Australia day where people are encouraged to pick up rubbish in their neighbourhoods and it has been going for years and has been very successful. I agree with Rolf when he suggests that the plastic producing industries should be paying a fee of some kind for the disposal or recycling of plastic waste products. I think its great that the "In the same boat" organisation encourages and educates the younger generation about this problem and hopefully over time we will see less and less plastic pollution around the world! Cheers Roger, look forward to your next video.
Yes, I never seen it here in Norway either before I joined these guys for a day. That’s why I could not believe my eyes when I was there next to a 20 tons pile of plastic. Thank you!
Lol Not one church very cool ! Your getting better me thinks ! This is a great project and it needs to be promoted !
Thank you!
11:17 I didn't quite get the link why Coco-Cola should be contributing to the clean up when 77% of the plastic comes from the fishing industry.
If any industries should contributing apart from fishing it's oil and gas whos raw materials are used in the production of plastics in the first place (not all).
If I'm honest I think microplastics are a bigger issue, which at the moment is slipping under the radar, out of sight out of mind.
It is easy to use Coca Cola as an example as it is a company known worl wide. There are many plastic bottles from Coca Cola to be found as well, and his point was that all industries contributing to the pollution should pay their small part.
@@SailMermaid Coca-Cola didn't discard the bottles into the environment the consumer did. Blaming Coca-Cola is like blaming car manufacturers for speeding, dangerous driving or drink driving. Should we blame McDonald's because some idiot can't put the wrapping in the bin when there finished. At some point we the consumer have to take responsibility, which as a group these people seem to be doing.
A man takes Dustin aside in the 1968 movie the Graduate and says to him, son, the future is in plastics! as the great plastic gyres slowly swirl in mid ocean .
Yike! He was so right, for all the wrong reasons
The Captain is RIGHT ON TARGET!!....come on people.
He knows a thing or two about this topic for sure!
Thank you for getting the work done. Has your government or any NGO's expressed any interest in supporting your efforts through grants or donations?
Wow I thought he was going to say picking plastic for 8 years NOT 8 days. Well done
Haha! Well, he is in for the long term anyways. Just imagine that pile of plastic after 8 years!!
Sail Mermaid scary thought
Hello... I can understand the cost to transport the plastic waste to (I hope) a plastic recycler. But unless I missed in the conversation, does the recycler pay "in the same boat" for the plastic, once its delivered ? Matthew Kjellerson
No, it is the opposite. In The Same Boat pays 3Nok (about 30 Euro cent) pr. kg to deliver this plastic to a government waste collect station. It is insane!
Well done Rodger dodger..........check out “the ocean clean up” here....if you haven’t already!
Thank you!
Maybe they will get the petase enzyme working before we are living in mountains and islands of plastic.
I don't know enough about this, but I hope there will be a solution soon
Every company on the planet that produces plastics should be required to pay a recycling fee of so many $ per ton of plastic produced. The fee that is taken from these companies needs to be put into an environmental fund . The fund should be managed by the UN or by a non profit within each country where the funds are taken from the manufacturer’s. There needs to be new international laws written and enforced by an entity much like the UN. We need to take care of our planet and oceans if we continue on the path we are on the earth will be a waste land. And right now there is no other planet we can move too once we have destroyed this one ! Will our politicians ever recognized these environmental issues ? Will they ever put away their differences and act in a cohesive manner to clean up our beautiful planet ? I can only hope but my hope is starting to run out !
Sadly you are right.
In the end it is always the consumer who pays the price, nomatter what. But yes, there needs to be some economic baite to make a change
Corporate guilt, being levied on the users. Corporations have to change first.
Not sure I agree completely. Corporates won't change until we stand up and make them change. If we stop using their services, they will change, bbut if we don't challenge them they have no reason to.
they should pick that up for free. bullshit. find a chunk of land next door and sell all the plastic containers for 1/2 off normal price or something. like a plastic junkyard. (junkyards are for car parts here in the USA). but there are RV junkyards, boat junkyards, etc. take some pics, sell that plastic online.
That’s not a bad idea. :)
@@SailMermaid i want a percentage. lol