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About This Collection
This collection was inspired by EarthSayer interviews of Roz Savage, ocean rower and environmental campaigner and Howard Lack, CEO of the Foundation, Plastic Oceans.
Plastic Oceans provides a powerful and effective platform campaigning for, supporting and funding targeted solutions aimed at significantly reducing plastic pollution in the environment. Their aim is to significantly reduce plastic pollution in the environment. This collection calls out organizations and individuals around the globe who share a concern for the plight of our oceans.
Visit our Oceans and 1 Water collections here on EarthSayers.tv to discover the many individuals from all walks of life speaking on behalf of Mother Earth and Water.
Curated by earthsayer
What Rivers Tell Us About Plastic Pollution | Gary Bencheghib | TEDxGreatPacificGarbagePatch |
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Gary Bencheghib and his Sungai Watch team confront plastic pollution on Indonesia's dirtiest rivers, wading through waste daily to prevent it from reaching the ocean. In a crucial TEDx talk, Bencheghib stresses that once plastic enters the ocean, it's too late. Recycling alone is insufficient; systemic change in product manufacturing is vital. He argues we must stop treating rivers as garbage bins and instead see them as mirrors of global consumption. This crisis is deeply personal for Bencheghib. Raised in Indonesia, he began organizing beach cleanups at age 14 with his siblings. What started as a family initiative quickly evolved into a lifelong mission to protect waterways from plastic waste. https://www.ted.com/tedx |
How Plastic Packaging Impacts Human Health | Dr. Jane Muncke | TEDxGreatPacificGarbagePatch
How much do people actually know about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?
Venice Beach Reactions to Real Trash From the Pacific Ocean
#worldoceansday
What would YOU say to the ocean?
Update from the Philippines 🇵ðŸ‡
This is what a trash tsunami looks like
From Los Angeles to Manila to the middle of the ocean... this was our progress in May
We are studying bite marks on plastic caught from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
We are expanding our operations in Greater Los Angeles. 🇺🇸
We are studying ocean plastic ingested by turtles
Transforming trash from Guatemala into... pillows.
It's full of these objects in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Tackling ghost gear in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
This is what progress toward clean oceans looked like in April
Tackling plastic pollution in Jakarta - Unfiltered
How we are tackling plastic pollution in Jakarta
Stopping trash before it reaches the ocean in the Philippines
How to remove 6000 bottles from the environment for $10
A healthy Earth can only exist without ocean plastic pollution #earth #earthday
"The Last Straw" For Marine Biologist Fighting Plastic Pollution with Nicole Nash
Give a Beach Bottle by Max Romey
Two Minutes on Oceans w/ Jim Toomey: Marine Litter
A Plastic Ocean
Plastic Pollution, our Oceans, our Future - #Film4Climate 3rd Prize Short Film Winner
Latest trash catch of Interceptor 023 in Honduras ðŸ‡ðŸ‡³
Celebrating our 100th scientific publication on ocean plastic pollution
Latest trash catch in Jamaica
Where does the trash in rivers come from
Albatross film trailer by Chris Jordan
March milestones and impact at The Ocean Cleanup
Making Plastic Pollution History
50 million kg of trash are no longer polluting our rivers and oceans
Trash Tsunami in Guatemala Caught by Interceptor 006 #shorts
Interview with Chris Jordan ALBATROSS Halsey Institute at the
Can drones and AI help us clean the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?
4 things we do to rid the world’s oceans of plastic
$121M to stop plastic before it reaches the ocean
$121M to stop plastic before it reaches the ocean
Stopping up to 1/3 of plastic flow from rivers to oceans: The Audacious Project accelerates scale-up
Can plastic-eating bacteria solve ocean plastic pollution?
Our progress towards clean oceans in January and February 2026
How we deploy Interceptors in the most polluting rivers in 5 steps
Did plastic pollution wipe out silkworms from the Cisadane River?
What's behind deploying our Interceptors in the world's most polluting rivers?
UPDATE: first deployments to stop ocean plastic pollution in India scheduled for this year.
We are stopping ocean plastic pollution coming from rivers in these countries.
This smart data-driven tool solves plastic pollution in cities.
What happens before we deploy our Interceptors?
Plastic pollution, oceans and civilisation | Rowan Byrne | TEDxUniversityofManchester
Stopping plastic pollution in Kingston, Jamaica
Coming soon: new deployments to stop trash flowing from most polluting rivers to the ocean
You can help us reach our goal of clean oceans
Solving plastic pollution in Panama City
Improving our ocean operations and scaling up our river Interceptors
All we did in August to get one step closer to clean oceans
Extraction after one of the latest trash tsunamis intercepted in Guatemala.
This is not AI. All this plastic pollution would end up in the Gulf of Honduras, if not intercepted.
The end is in sight: stopping plastic pollution in the Gulf of Honduras
Reversing an environmental disaster
The moment we knew cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch was possible
Intercepting trash in Guatemala
If all goes well, the Gulf of Honduras could stay clean for the first time in decades
New milestone: 10,000 extractions of river waste
Our Interceptors' impact in Kingston, Jamaica
Final steps underway to stop plastic pollution in Mumbai 🇮🇳
This is how we are ridding the world's oceans of plastic - modeling vs reality.
What happened at The Ocean Cleanup in July #shorts
From vision to reality: cleanup operations #shorts
Ocean operations update: improving our cleanup system
We are improving our ocean operations.
Our work to end plastic pollution in the Gulf of Honduras #shorts
Two back-to-back trash tsunamis intercepted in Guatemala #short
Here's how we rid the world's oceans of plastic
“What do we do with the trash?” answered in 3 steps:
From the interesting finds series:
This is the biggest catch to date for Interceptor 015 🇯🇲
World Cleanup Day 2025
Preventing trash from reaching the ocean and cleaning it up is not impossible.
Working towards cleaner oceans
We find a lot of plastic bottles among our river catch… but also this
We designed our Interceptors to stop plastic pollution flowing from rivers into the ocean.
Tackling plastic pollution in the Cisadane River, Indonesia
Boyan Slat founded The Ocean Cleanup in 2013 with a mission: to rid the world's oceans of plastic.
How unscheduled learning opportunities drive progress
All we did in November for cleaner oceans
How to remove 2,300 bottles from the environment for $10
From failure to success: stopping plastic pollution in Guatemala
Yes, humans are winning the fight against ocean plastic pollution
2025 wrapped: The Ocean Cleanup edition
Our goal: clean oceans
This is how we are working to solve ocean plastic pollution.
How we are tackling plastic pollution in Panama City
How we are tackling plastic pollution in Panama City
Is there hope for a cleaner river and ocean? Cisadane River 🇮🇩
Interceptors collect trash AND data for upstream change
30 Fridges in the latest Interceptor catch in Jamaica
So far, so good.
40,000,000 kg of trash are no longer polluting our rivers and oceans.
Analyzing our plastic catch from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
LATEST from Interceptor 007 in Los Angeles, 🇺🇸
Is the plastic pollution problem unsolvable? We don't think so.
Stopping trash from reaching the Panama Bay 🇵🇦
Switch the sound on if you dare.
What we did in October to solve ocean plastic pollution
More plastic than fish in ocean by 2050? | Ellen MacArthur Foundation x Breaking the Plastic Wave
Ocean Plastic - everybody's responsible | Pete Ceglinski | TEDxAuckland
How does plastic get in the ocean?
3BL Forum Brands Taking Stands - LIVE! | June 2, 2021
Plastics Have Been Found In The Mariana Trench
Baby Sea Turtles Are Dying Because Of Microplastics
Demand Action on Plastic Pollution by Fossil Fuel Companies
A luxury boutique bringing you fish infused with fashionable microplastic fibres from the hottest
What's the World's Most Littered Plastic Item? Cigarette Butts | National Geographic
Tracking Plastic Sea to Source | Explorers Fest
Deplastifying The Arctic's Pristine Waters
The Solution to Plastic Pollution? by Max Wilbert
To stop plastic pollution we need a circular economy for plastic
Podcast: Holistic Nature of us: Meet Nate Liebenberg
Simon Bernard: "Around the World Powered by Plastic Waste" | Talks at Google
Peter Kohler & Stefan Leutenegger: "The Plastic Tide: Vision from the Skies" | Talks at Google
Ep1: A plastic world | FROZEN ISLANDS, ARCTIC SEAS | #WWFVoices
Don't Let Big Plastic Trash our Oceans
Platic Consumption with Sir David Attenborough
A Plastic Ocean Official Trailer
A Plastic Ocean Official Trailer (2016)
Tackling plastic waste in the Pacific with Kosi Latu
Doing Our Part to Curb Plastic Waste in Pakistan
The economic injustice of plastic by Van Jones
Tough truths about plastic pollution - Dianna Cohen at TED
Can you solve this challenge with us? We need YOUR ideas to get supermarkets to stop using so muc
How the oceans can clean themselves: Boyan Slat at TEDxDelft
Interface | Creating A Restorative Loop with the Net-Works™ Programme
The Plastic Bank with Founder David Katz
The Seas of Plastic by Captain Charles Moore
Plastic Oceans by ABC Catalyst Australia
What is a Gyre?
PLASTICIZED by 5 Gyres Institute
First-hand Experience with Plastic in Our Oceans by Roz Savage
About the PlasticOceans Film Project by Howard Lack
Plastic Oceans Awareness by Howard Lack
Shocking and Very Sad by Doug Allan
Stop Buying Disposal Plastics by Tanya Streeter
American Chemistry Council Viewpoint by Steve Russell
Tapped: Stephanie Seochtig
Plastic in our Oceans
With Knowing Comes Caring by Sylvia Earle
The Story of Bottled Water, released on March 22, 2010 in just over five minutes, the film explor
There are some scary creatures in the ocean... none more scary than plastic.
Bag It (trailer)
Plastic Seduction by Katrin Peters
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