Crowd Funding - Ocean Cleanup Flashcards
When was the crowd funding page set up?
3rd June 2014
What’s the definition of crowd funding?
funding a project by raising small amounts from a large amount of people
What’s Ocean Cleanups goal by 2040?
90% reduction of floating plastics
How much money did the campaign aim to raise in 100 days?
$2 million
How much did the campaign raise in just over 100 days?
$2,154,000
What was the name of the first clean up system released in September 2018?
001 in San Francisco
The ‘Interceptor’ (002) was deployed in what country?
Malaysia
What’s 2 major benefits of the Interceptor?
- 100% solar powered
- extracts plastic automatically
- it can be placed in major polluting rivers
With the new technology what do Ocean Cleanup hope to achieve in the next 5 years?
tackling 1000 of the most polluting rivers
The 2016 Ariel Expedition found how many kilograms of floating plastics?
80 million kg
The 001 system is smaller and modular making it ideal for where?
offshore adaptations
