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Excited to announce that @TheOceanCleanup is massively scaling up Interceptor projects in the coming years!
✅30 Cities.
✅Stopping up to 1/3rd of all plastic pollution flowing out of rivers globally.
✅All by 2030.
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Boyan Slat
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Boyan Slat
@BoyanSlat
Studied aerospace engineering, becomes a cleaner. Founder/CEO @TheOceanCleanup
Katılım Mayıs 2010
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I have an irrational hatred toward this genre of books.
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This is where our next Interceptor will be deployed next month.
Tráfico Panamá@TraficoCPanama
Gran cantidad de basura en el río Matías Hernández. Está imagen corresponde.m a la desembocadura en Costa del Este.
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Was hard to see the amount of trash here though (Raja Ampat, Indonesia)
Definitely moving it up the Interceptor priority list.
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Our work continues in Jamaica, where our nine Interceptors located in Kingston stop trash from flowing into the Caribbean Sea.
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First catch of the year for Interceptor 006 in Rio las Vacas, Guatemala 🇬🇹
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While our main focus at the moment is on scaling up our river systems, our work to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch continues in parallel.
Key is knowing where to sweep, as the patch is vast and very “patchy.” If we manage to accurately predict where the trash hotspots form, we can massively reduce the cost and time it takes to fully clean it up.
Our idea is to use oceanographic modeling to get us roughly in the right areas, and then use drones to fine-tune the trajectories of the systems on a local scale.
This summer, we’re returning to the patch for a six-week research trip to put all this to the test. This will be a key milestone toward making the Great Pacific Garbage Patch history.
Curiosity@CuriosityonX
This is incredible. This machine is capable of cleaning up 100 million kg of plastic ocean waste, and as of 2025, it has already collected about 500,000 kg of plastic. It aims to remove 90% of ocean plastic by 2040.
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AI is putting a massive premium on curiosity. The kind of person that used to get lost in wikipedia rabbit holes is learning more than ever. Others are using it to outsource their homework.
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@cremieuxrecueil Good point. I wish more stats were broken down by relevant subgroups when distributions are highly skewed. For example: driving isn’t that dangerous if you wear a seatbelt, don’t speed and don’t drink.
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We spent $15,000 on billboards targeting one person: the guy controlling all the chemical spend at a saltwater disposal company in Texas. We mapped his commute and bought every billboard between his house and the oil field. When we finally called, he said "I see your billboards everywhere." That landed us our first oil field contract. At the time our entire operation was a $10,000 reactor built from PVC pipes from Home Depot, turning corn sugar into industrial chemicals. People keep trying to throw it away. It still works. That leaking reactor started a multibillion-dollar company. @ycombinator visited our plant in Houston. The original PVC reactor is still on the floor next to the Bioforge.
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In conversation with @govindethiraj, Boyan Slat discusses the technology, economics, and global partnerships needed to scale solutions to plastic pollution. Watch this episode of The Core Report: Weekend Edition to dive deeper. youtube.com/watch?v=82v-4C….
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Fun fact: this was actually the 4th time we applied for The Audacious Project. Fourth time's a charm!
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Super grateful to @TheAudaciousPrj community for kick-starting our 30 Cities program with $121m in support!
The Ocean Cleanup@TheOceanCleanup
BREAKING: The Audacious Project, part of the TED Group, is backing the 30 Cities Program and accelerating our scale-up. This brings us one step closer to stopping up to 1/3 of all plastic from flowing from rivers into the ocean.
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@J33P4 Could be, but low probability as it didn’t for 3 years straight.
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@BoyanSlat Probably resolved on its own. Correlation doesn’t equal causation.
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Three years ago I suddenly developed blurry vision in one of my eyes.
Went to the GP.
Eye drops. No effect.
Went to a specialized eye hospital.
No solution there either.
A few weeks ago I tried something new: I asked an LLM.
It analyzed my diet and suggested I might be omega-3 deficient. It also pointed me to studies showing that this can impair the meibomian glands (which produce the oily layer that smooths the surface of the cornea.)
I started taking algae oil supplements.
Two weeks later… my vision is perfectly restored!
Honestly, I got a bit emotional.
Banning AI from being used for medical questions is a terrible idea.
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS
A New York bill would ban AI from answering questions related to several licensed professions like medicine, law, dentistry, nursing, psychology, social work, engineering, and more. The companies would be liable if the chatbots give “substantive responses” in these areas.
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