The Cost of Cleaning Up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

We now call upon the world - governments, companies, individuals - to make this cleanup happen.

[heyhey]

I seriously hope that gentleman wins a Nobel price and his job would be recognized and supported.

[William-]

Wonderful to see that ordinary people want to donate, and the multinationals are silent again....
Wonderful or sad 🤷🏻‍♂️

[violetscreaming]

And it’s all the little $20-$100 donations that will get it done, all the little people, some who’ll never even touch the pacific care more than those profiting off the mess.

[vort]

I really hope they will pull it off and love the transparency! That said, this amount is only for the pacific patch. We will need even more. Time for a plastic tax

[besanzaz]

Time for the big companies to start joining in. 7.5 Billion is not much if the right players participate.

[FrogeniusW.G.]

Oh man, I hate consumerism so much.. 😩😩😩

[Rockmaster]

Elon could start his redemption arc with this 😅

[rebalyon]

and every government should be chipping in ⛴️🌊🐚🐠

[selwynmcdonald]

Make the plastic producers and retailers pay for it ....

[sigurdmodin]

yayyy u did a short version!!1 im so glad

[bunkyayars]

Here’s an idea…. stop it at its source

[taradufour]

ELON did u hear this? Can we have .002 of ur money to clean the oceans? Some of us like it more than mars!

[MichaelB-wmcg]

Won't cost anything. Just leave it swirly there. Its doing no harm.

[Dplusithicus]

If you want to solve a fiscal problem, you need to provide incentive to make your problem more palatable to people who don't care.

Anyone can beg. Anyone can ask. But not everyone can creatively attach an unrelated incentive to act as a solution to your problem.

[geepagreentea]

This isn’t a cost.

This is an INVESTMENT.

If you ❤️ your kids and this planet the choice is simple.

LFG!!!

[samuelfoote]

15 billion in gold gets thrown away each year in the US through used electronics.

[Runner]

So....the 10 richest people on earth should be the first to contribute, if that's less than 0.5% of their worth, right???

[drizzlejohn]

Billionaires 💰 have been real silent since this dropped...

[nothayatoplays]

This is the type of investments we need!

[batm]

Elon Musk should sponsor this project.