DeepGreen Attends Efforts to Clean Great Pacific Garbage Patch

DeepGreen, a Canadian company supplying the world with the metals needed for economic growth and clean technologies, is contributing to ocean health by participating in The Ocean Cleanup (TOC) project to remove plastics for the next five years.

DeepGreen, together with the global shipping company Maersk, is contributing to this landmark project by offering The Ocean Cleanup Foundation in Maersk. Launcher launch its plastics cleaning project in San Francisco Bay. the Launcher is being subleased by DeepGreen and will be used to conduct deep seabed studies and scientific work to recover polymetallic nodules that contain a significant supply of cobalt, copper, nickel and manganese. wind turbines.

"DeepGreen believes that ocean health is essential for our future and that is why we are doing our part to help The Ocean Cleanup in its visionary mission," said Gerard Barron, CEO of DeepGreen, in a statement. "We envision the oceans becoming an important source of metals for our future, offering a much cleaner alternative to metals of terrestrial origin." As a company, we consider it to be our duty not just exploiting advanced science and technology with minimal impact on the environment, but also improving the health of our oceans through our other activities. "

The maersk Launcher and its crew will help deploy the unique TOC system designed to capture a significant portion of plastic debris in the central Pacific and reduce human-caused pollution that poses an environmental threat to marine wildlife.

"I have spent my life studying and working to protect the ocean," said Greg Stone, oceanographer and chief oceanographer for DeepGreen. "In addition to 10,000 dives, in almost every ocean, I spent about two years underwater, and I know first-hand that we have a lot of work to do to improve the health of the oceans At DeepGreen, we think systematically: removing macro-plastics from our oceans is a step in the right direction, and we are delighted to support TOC. "

"The ocean has the solution in the form of polymetallic nodules," he adds, "collecting them in a relatively small part of the abyssal plain of the deep ocean, more than a thousand kilometers from the coast and can find a abundant supply of metals that we need for our future without major impact on the health of the oceans. "