We love you Mr. Talk to a friend, organize your school or business, make some art, film a video, whatever makes sense to you and your community as we work toward 30M. Fight side-by-side with #TeamSeas for cleaner coastal communities. Whoever your team is, get them on #TeamSeas. The project aims to clean the oceans, 30 million pounds of waste in particular. [3][4] Most creators explained the purpose of Team Seas and convinced viewers to donate to Team Seas throughout the entirety of their videos, while some added a short explanatory segment in theirs. The Ocean Cleanup develops and scales technologies to clean up what is already polluting our oceans and to intercept plastic on its way to the ocean via rivers. Aside from the water we drink, the ocean produces half the air we breathe every day. The YouTuber launched a new project by the name of 'TeamSeas' back in October 2021. 30M pounds of trash collected is 30M pounds of trash that wont come face to face with whales, dolphins, seabirds and other beloved wildlife, and that wont keep breaking down into smaller and smaller pieces, ending up on our dinner plates. Goal Reach Date In cases where contamination of the trash and/or lack of local recycling makes it impossible to reprocess, trash will go to a proper disposal site in accordance with local regulations and capacity. Matthew Doyon, better known by his online alias Zealous, is a YouTuber with over 2.7 million subscribers. Ocean Conservancy is a US-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit (EIN 23-7245152) and is rated 4 stars (94/100) by Charity Navigator. Theres much more we need to do to tackle the climate crisis, and we hope you bring this same #TeamSeas energy to other efforts to protect the ocean and the planet. Scroll on to see our cutting-edge river Interceptors, info on locally-organized cleanups, ghost-gear removal efforts and professional expeditions to areas where we can have the greatest conservation impact! Team Seas is a brand new global campaign that officially started on Friday, October 29, 2021, at 1.00 pm (PT). We only support the recent versions of major browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge. ", Brawl Stars is a mobile video game that has been affiliated with MrBeast in the past, sponsoring his viral video "$456,000 Squid Game In Real Life! There are a lot of ways you can tackle the problem, and we think cleanups are complementary so long as theyre not excuses for delay. One of the most exciting parts for us is that we have no idea what youll come up with, and we cant wait to see it. Were back again to rally the internets passion and imagination in support of the ocean. One of the most exciting parts for us is that we have no idea what youll come up with, and we cant wait to see it. With their river systems, the Interceptors, they are now helping to close the tap on a global scale, capturing plastic before it enters the oceans via rivers. Each dollar counted towards planting a single tree, so over 23 million trees were planted. Now a group of YouTube influencers calling themselves "Team Seas" are working together to stem the flow of trash. Were back again to rally the internets passion and imagination in support of the ocean. 30M pounds of trash collected is 30M pounds of trash that wont come face to face with whales, dolphins, seabirds and other beloved wildlife, and that wont keep breaking down into smaller and smaller pieces, ending up on our dinner plates. The ICC is the largest beach cleanup network in the world (more than 350 million pounds of trash have been collected from beaches in its 35+ year history!). Whoever your team is, get them on #TeamSeas. The campaign's goal is to raise 30 million USD to remove 30 million pounds of trash polluting coastal regions, rivers, and ultimately oceans. . #TeamSeas will support the expansion and continued operation of this work as The Ocean Cleanup takes aim at the 1% of rivers which contribute 80% of the trash flowing into the ocean from rivers. Were glad you asked. The preceding fundraiser, Team Trees, was started on October 25, 2019, by MrBeast and Mark Rober. That's 30M pounds of trash and plastic that's co. 2019-12-17T22:56:17.2670000Z. Please watch out for scammers. Well keep the site up and running the whole time (and you can still plant a tree at TeamTrees.org!). Even though the Interceptors arent a permanent solution, they are a safety net until waste management on land improves and were able to stop plastic from polluting our rivers. The funds raised will go to two organizations, split equally: The Ocean Cleanup and Ocean Conservancy. Transcript PATREON IS HERE TO HELP. MrBeast's previous global fundraising initiative, Team Trees, raised over $23 million. We launched #TeamTrees in 2019 with a goal of raising $20M to plant 20M trees and we smashed itraising over $23M and generating more than 1B video views. #TeamSeas is a global campaign to raise $30M to remove 30M pounds of plastic and trash from our ocean, rivers and beaches. TeamSeas will work with local authorities to make sure any labeled, working gear is returned to local fishers. Although the COVID-19 pandemic continued to exist, MrBeast and people in general got used to the COVID-19 era lifestyle, hence why it became easier to implement this project in 2021. [2], Team Seas aimed to remove 30,000,000 pounds (14,000,000kg) of marine debris from the ocean by the end of 2021 by raising 30 million dollars, with one pound removed for every dollar donated. The donation by YouTubers Preston & Brianna Arsement. The former will handle the humane aspect of the project, while The Ocean Cleanup will implement their advanced technology, "Interceptors", to help clean up rivers. Unfortunately our oceanand the rivers that feed itare full of plastic trash. [1][2] The project was mass released over the internet on many different social media platforms on Friday October 29, 2021, at 1 PM (PT). Jump to navigation Jump to search. We want you to do what you do best. They mobilize citizen advocates to facilitate change, and are committed to supporting efforts that benefit the people who depend on the ocean for food, jobs and recreation. WHAT IS #TEAMSEAS? If youre not sure if its legit, check TeamSeas.org. October 29, 2021 "Dogs Of Elon $DOE team is very happy that can donate and make planet safer.". Were glad you asked. Each non-profit is responsible for delivering on their half of the goal. The turnout for celebrity donations is expected to be higher this year. The team will be working to help our marine environments on January 1, 2022 at midnight PT, which is also the deadline for the project's goal number of hitting $30,000,000. Two years ago we planted 20,000,000 trees and now we want to remove 30,000,000 pounds of trash from the ocean with. RiversFor our rivers, #TeamSeas will fund Interceptors, The Ocean Cleanups river cleanup technologies that collect trash before it can reach the ocean. Talk: Team Seas. The TeamSeas community was already 85.44% of the way to their goal of raising $30,000,000 by January 1st, 2022. [2] On October 19, 2021, a video of MrBeast talking to creators was leaked.[3]. We want you to do what you do best. Join #TeamSeas in making powerful changes today! Aside from drinkable water, the ocean also produces half of the world's breathable air. BeachesWith the experts at Ocean Conservancy, well send professional crews to clean up some of the most iconic, vulnerable beaches on the planet. The fundraiser pledges to remove 30,000,000 pounds (14,000,000kg) of marine debris from the ocean by removing 1 pound (0.45kg) of marine debris from the ocean for every 1 dollar donated. After conducting research and setting up the necessary local partnerships, its time to deploy and start intercepting trash! Beaches Rivers Oceans Website We think youll be surprised at who else is on #TeamSeas and how many fascinating videos are out there for you to discover. The plastic pollution problem is so big that no single solution will fix it at once. #TeamSeas will work with Ocean Conservancys Global Ghost Gear Initiative to go to ghost gear graveyards, where well identify and float the abandoned gear to the surface, hook it onto boat cranes and remove it from the ocean forever. [3] #TeamSeas will work with Ocean Conservancys Global Ghost Gear Initiative to go to ghost gear graveyards, where well identify and float the abandoned gear to the surface, hook it onto boat cranes and remove it from the ocean forever. But half the money goes to the ocean cleanup foundation, which cleans the ocean with a device called system 002. You can add a name and description to each item that you upload, then mark it as for sale. On October 29, 2021, MrBeast and Mark Rober teamed up again to launch Team Seas, a successor to the project that aimed to help clean up marine debris. They mobilize citizen advocates to facilitate change, and are committed to supporting efforts that benefit the people who depend on the ocean for food, jobs and recreation. They split the funds 50/50 and the money will be released when the trash is removed and verified: $1, one pound. Every year, 11 million metric tons of plastics enter our ocean. With their river systems, the Interceptors, they are now helping to close the tap on a global scale, capturing plastic before it enters the oceans via rivers. All donations to #TeamSeas will be split between the two organizations, 50/50. By reaching a billion people through #TeamSeas videos, and activating new generations of ocean advocates, we hope to inspire a movement and demand for solutions. You can create a Team during checkout or join one from Search. Despite this, the project has gained monumental support and recognition and is now on its way to clearing 30 million pounds of trash by January 1st, 2022. Currently, the largest donation that has been made is from YouTube Originals. Mark Rober, a YouTuber, engineer, inventor and co-organizer of the campaign, joins Host Bobby Bascomb to talk about Team Seas' $30 million goal to collect 30 million pounds of trash from the world's oceans. #TeamSeas is a global campaign to raise $30M to remove 30M pounds of plastic and trash from our ocean, rivers and beaches. The reason why this project was made in the first place is because of the fact that the ocean and the life within it are important for the sustainability of human life. 30,000,000 pounds of trash removed. Off the bat, I look at the goal of 30 million pounds to be . Heres the latest list: Twitter: twitter.com/teamseas , Instagram: instagram.com/teamseas , Facebook: facebook.com/teamseas , YouTube: youtube.com/teamseas , reddit: reddit.com/r/teamseas , TikTok: tiktok.com/@teamseas ( use the Support Nonprofit donate sticker for Ocean Conservancy). . At the launch of the YouTube video "I Cleaned The World's Dirtiest Beach" on October 29, 2021 at 1PM Pacific Time, a lot of MrBeast/ocean-related YouTube videos from both big and small YouTubers, were uploaded at the same time. Please watch out for scammers. This project is considered as the spiritual successor to Team Trees (which had $23M raised, and around an additional $2,600 donated today), though this time, MrBeast plans to clean the oceans and seas from plastic, with a goal of raising $30,000,000, with one dollar donated equaling to an entire pound of plastic removed from the oceans, rivers, and/or beaches, though the money is more so split into the two of Team Seas' organizations. But weve got to start somewhere. Once the collection is set up, you can add items to it and upload your work up to a maximum of 100MB per file. We launched #TeamSeas on Friday, October 29th at 1PM PACIFIC TIME with a massive wave of online videos and well continue to create content to rally our communities throughout the campaign. (If youre reading this right now, and you love the ocean, we invite you to create something too). #TeamSeas is a global campaign to raise $30M to remove 30M pounds of plastic and trash from our ocean, rivers and beaches. A few days. thousands of creators from 145 countries, with a combined follow count of 1 billion, created videos about the fundraiser. [5], https://www.reddit.com/r/MrBeast/comments/ptnu9i/mr_beast_is_actually_doing_team_seas/, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02JYGvrTf_s, https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/408735028940636180/927020750437761024/unknown.png, https://theoceancleanup.com/from-trash-to-treasure/, "After seeing the 600,000+ individual donors that got us to this point, I wanted to step up and do my part to accomplish this audacious goal and help the planet.". The $30M fundraising goal officially ends on January 1, 2022 at 11:59pm PT, so we only have a short amount of time to raise the money. 30 MILLION POUNDS OF TRASH! The channel was launched two weeks before the corresponding video of Team Seas and the Team Seas website themselves were officially launched. This website will offer limited functionality in this browser. Erik Bergman the company's founder and CEO. RiversFor our rivers, #TeamSeas will fund Interceptors, The Ocean Cleanups river cleanup technologies that collect trash before it can reach the ocean. Beast Back With Team Seas", "MrBeast And Mark Rober's #TeamSeas Is Raising $30 Million For Ocean Cleanup", "YouTubers MrBeast, Mark Rober Reteam for 'TeamSeas' Charity Fundraiser to Clean Up Trash From Marine Environments", "TeamSeas Will Be Transformational for Our OceanLet's Go! We also encourage you to engage with and amplify #TeamSeas content across the internet. #TeamSeas will work with The Ocean Cleanup to tackle trash from these rivers with their Interceptor technologies. ", "Inspired by all of the kids, schools and families! All donations to #TeamSeas will be split between the two organizations, 50/50. [1] As of 6December2022[update], $33,069,966 has been raised. Ocean Conservancy facilitates the International Coastal Cleanup (ICC), one of the worlds largest volunteer cleanup efforts for the ocean. Aside from the water we drink, the ocean produces half the air we breathe every day. Were dividing our work among three points of intervention: beaches, rivers and oceans. Remaining gear will be recycled when possible and the remainder properly disposed of. Also, ten dollars donated, for example, would also equate to ten pounds from the ocean removed, and crypto is also an acceptable form of donating. And encourage everyone to join TeamSeas in this effort! What would you like to bring to the party? Nearly all of these plastics are made from fossil fuels including crude oil, natural gas liquids and coal. This is by no means me saying that care for the environment shouldn't be followed, as I find that our greatest treasure we have as a species is in the world we have around us, but I'm a bit skeptical about this project's effectiveness at completing it's goal. One way to look at it is there is a confirmed 270,000 imperial tons of plastic in the ocean and 30 million pounds is 13,400 imperial tons. Scroll on to see our cutting-edge river Interceptors, info on locally-organized cleanups, ghost-gear removal efforts and professional expeditions to areas where we can have the greatest conservation impact! The fundraiser succeeded in raising over 33 million U.S. dollars. That number has doubled to $6,000,000 for the next 12 hours, then $10,000,000 on November 1, 2021. This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject. Many YouTubers and content creators have collaborated with MrBeast for this project, uploading videos of themselves going to beaches in their local area and picking up trash. Thats why we need to reduce the amount of plastic we use and waste we generate, period. The fundraising campaign will close at midnight PT on January 1, 2022. Main Video. Working with . [4][5], MrBeast released a video on October 29, 2021, showing his team cleaning the polluted beaches of Bajos de Haina, Dominican Republic as volunteers for Ocean Conservancy. ", "YouTuber MrBeast's tree-planting campaign reached its goal of raising $20 million. Theres much more we need to do to tackle the climate crisis, and we hope you bring this same #TeamSeas energy to other efforts to protect the ocean and the planet. (Especially thanks to an anonymous $2,000,000 donation this week.) Team Seas (stylized as #teamseas) is another project created by MrBeast . Doubling down for Earth. Brittney Yevette Griner (/ r a n r /; born October 18, 1990) is an American professional basketball player for the Phoenix Mercury of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). Think of it as a giant, global potluck for good. A viral video, entitled: "MrBeast Saves THE OCEAN #TeamSeas" shows MrBeast killing a litterer of the seas and presenting him with a bottle flip challenge. One of their key technology solutions, The Interceptor, is solar-powered and can collect trash autonomously. Just like the original campaign that inspired it, #TeamSeas is being led by Mark (Rober), Jimmy (MrBeast) and Campaign Director, Matt Fitzgerald (@fitz350). Heres where you can get dirty! Donating one dollar or more to Team Seas can help remove one pound of trash. The $30M fundraising goal officially ends on January 1, 2022 at midnight PT, so we only have a short amount of time to raise the money. [4], With this project raising $30,000,000 before 2022, half of that money will be funded for the volunteer groups of the nonprofit organization Ocean Conservancy who will be removing the trash from the beaches and oceans, and the other half will be funded for the robotic machines (named Interceptors) by The Ocean Cleanup who has been collecting the trash from the rivers since 2013, and has a goal of removing 90% reduction of floating ocean plastic by 2040. Unfortunately our oceanand the rivers that feed itare full of plastic trash. Moreover, The Ocean Cleanup also has their own recycling plan of converting trash to more valuable items, such as designer sunglasses. It's also the second wave of the largest creator-led fundraising campaign to ever hit the internet: #TeamTrees.We launched #TeamTrees in 2019 with a goal of raising $20M to plant 20M trees and we smashed itraising over $23M and generating more than . Unsupported Browser! Team Seas is an non-profit fundraiser trying to remove 30 million pounds of marine debris starting from 29th october 2021 to now. Beast! So its a no-brainer that keeping it clean and healthy is critical to our survival. January 1, 2022 Download your card, share it on social, and tag 3 friends to join #TeamSeas. And the greenhouse gas emissions from the plastics sector are about 2 gigatons, equivalent to the emissions of 370 million passenger cars. team seas campaign has come to a conclusion with 26 million dollars has been raised meaning 26 million pounds of trash is being removed from the ocean , but . Jimmy "MrBeast" Donaldson unveiled his new project, #TeamSeas, a spiritual successor to his 2019 fundraising campaign #TeamTreas. #TeamSeas is a movement fueled by our power to inspire each otherevery donation counts and every voice matters. ", "YouTube is so proud to be a part of this incredible project. Though, despite this, the ocean has been filled with plastic trash and it's estimated that there are 200M tons of plastic already circulating in marine environments, with an estimated 11M tons entering the ocean every year. been removing ghost gear from waters all around the world for years. Spread love, mash the RT button, and if you see a way to organize something cool together, well, thats awesome! Ocean Conservancy champions science-based solutions to tackle the largest ocean conservation challenges we face to strengthen the health of the ocean today and for the future. #TeamSeas will be one of the biggest, baddest, most-impactful cleanup projects of all timeand here's how we're doing it. Weve reunited many of the worlds most popular content creators to help launch the campaign, add their creativity and invite their audience to power #TeamSeas toward its ambitious 30M goal. [6] Mark Rober released a video on the same day, filmed with The Ocean Cleanup. Within the first week of Team Seas launch alone, MrBeast and his team cleaned up six million pounds of waste from the ocean [$1 = 1 pound waste removed]. For #TeamTrees, we saw artists draw comics for trees, kids hold bakesales, and tech founders one-up each other on the Leaderboard. The ocean and the life within it are incredibly important. Speaking of legit, the only official store for #TeamSeas is store.teamseas.org. For #TeamSeas, weve partnered up with Ocean Conservancy and The Ocean Cleanup. [citation needed] Videos on TikTok also featured a donation sticker for the campaign. The Interceptors deployed with the help of #TeamSeas will keep cleaning even after the campaign comes to a close. At the start of the video, Jimmy tells his fans and new-comers to subscribe to PewDiePie and to help him win the war. . Founded in 2013, The Ocean Cleanup has a proven commitment to the ambitious goal of ridding the worlds oceans of plastic. Here's the list of prominent people who have donated, including Elon Musk, Jeffree Star, and even the CEO of YouTube", "Creator-Lead Movement Raises $1 Million In 1 Hour; Aims To Remove 30 Million Pounds Of Trash From Rivers, Oceans, And Beaches", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Team_Seas&oldid=1125863263, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles containing potentially dated statements from December 2022, All articles containing potentially dated statements, Articles with unsourced statements from January 2022, Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 6 December 2022, at 07:57. Click Create to watch your collection space grow. We recommend you start by telling someone else about the mission, why youre passionate about it, and invite them to get involved at TeamSeas.org. Plastic production and climate change are inextricably linked, and both are huge problems for the ocean. #TeamSeas will partner with volunteers like you to remove millions of pounds of trash from the worlds beaches and weigh the total trash collected at the end of each cleanup. Each non-profit is responsible for delivering on their half of the goal. Ocean Conservancy will work with its Global Ghost Gear Initiative members and partners on the water to identify ghost gear graveyards around the world. ", "For all the adventurers out there who love the ocean as much as we do!". Interceptors will be programmed to automatically pick up trash at their designated locations, 24 hours a day throughout the entire year. ", "Matching your donations so $1 = 2 lbs. Every $1 is one less pound of trash in the ocean. They carry out the types of clandestine, small-unit, high-impact missions that large forces with high-profile platforms (such as ships, tanks, jets and submarines) cannot. ", "It would be immoral to sit back and watch when hoarded pieces of paper can do so much.". Lets go!!! Think of it as a giant, global potluck for good. Their goal is to achieve a 90% reduction of floating ocean plastic by 2040. As of the morning of December 31st the final day of the project #TeamSeas has raised $25,630,743 USD to remove trash from oceans, rivers, and beaches. Information Ocean Conservancy has estimated that the crude oil needed to make that much plastic is over 800 times more than the amount spilled during the Exxon Valdez disaster! TeamSeas will work with local authorities to make sure collected trash is properly disposed of and, where local facilities exist, well recycle all accepted materials. Even two years later, TeamTrees.org is still receiving donations and planting 2,600 trees every day. Heres the latest list: Twitter: twitter.com/teamseas , Instagram: instagram.com/teamseas , Facebook: facebook.com/teamseas , YouTube: youtube.com/teamseas , reddit: reddit.com/r/teamseas , TikTok: tiktok.com/@teamseas ( use the Support Nonprofit donate sticker for Ocean Conservancy). But weve got to start somewhere. (Yes, its a very cool process.). Verizon Green Team. This video was actually commented by Jimmy, and interestingly, was created by the same YouTuber who created: "IF MrBeast Created SQUID GAME". 100,000 trees. Generating your downloadable Donation Card #TeamSeas will be one of the biggest, baddest, most-impactful cleanup projects of all timeand heres how were doing it. The Ocean Cleanup is #TeamSeass implementation partner for rivers. Weve reunited many of the worlds most popular content creators to help launch the campaign, add their creativity and invite their audience to power #TeamSeas toward its ambitious 30M goal. But MrBeast's Team Seas initiative has toppled it all. We launched #TeamTrees in 2019 with a goal of raising $20M to plant 20M trees and we smashed itraising over $23M and generating more than 1B video views. In order to establish investment priorities for future space system acquisition programs, the Air Force needed a way to evaluate the potential effectiveness of alternative space system concepts in the context of warfighting scenarios. 69,420 trees. We launched #TeamSeas on Friday, October 29th at 1pm PT with a massive wave of online videos and well continue to create content to rally our communities throughout the campaign. Tree-mendous! Team Seas just hit its goal of 30 million dollars! Ever since Team Trees started, the viewers in the comment section said that in 2020, MrBeast should clean the oceans, though due to the COVID-19 pandemic happening in 2020, it wasn't feasible to start. The campaign aims to bring awareness to the worldwide problem of trash being. In 2009, Griner was named the nation's No. You can create a Team during checkout or join one from Search. "I waited to see what Mark donated so I could add an extra dollar to it". Ocean Conservancy is #TeamSeass implementation partner for beaches and oceans. 2019-10-31T13:39:46.0530000Z . The plastic pollution problem is so big that no single solution will fix it at once. Beaches Rivers Oceans The preceding fundraiser, Team Trees, was started on October 25, 2019, by MrBeast and Mark Rober. Founded in 2013, The Ocean Cleanup has a proven commitment to the ambitious goal of ridding the worlds oceans of plastic. If youre not sure if its legit, check TeamSeas.org. "I'm so stoked! Lost, abandoned and discarded fishing gear or ghost gear is some of the deadliest ocean trash, and super tricky to recover. As with the Team Trees campaign, many influencers had also joined in spreading the message to help the project be a success. Effectiveness of Team Seas? Rivers are a major source of ocean plastic pollution, with research showing that 1% of rivers account for nearly 80% of pollution flowing from rivers. The Ocean Cleanup has several Interceptors already deployed in some of the worlds most polluted rivers to catch plastic and trash upstream. #TeamSeas official social accounts will always be listed here and on the homepage. However, despite the high rate of donations at the beginning of the project, the amount of donations started to slow down to around 17 million in mid-to-late December 2021, hence why MrBeast attempted to make a livestream with Mark Rober where either he, Rober, or both would slap themselves for every $10 donated, hence increasing the rate and adding seveal million more dollars being donated. In response to MrBeast's donation, they added one extra dollar to theirs. "BIG OR SMALL, WE CAN ALL MAKE A DIFFERENCE. The U.S. Navy SEALs were established by President John F. Kennedy in 1962 as a small, elite maritime military force to conduct Unconventional Warfare. During the event, random items (trash) were coded to spawn in the ocean. The organizations that will be using the money are Ocean Conservancy and The Ocean Cleanup, both non-profits. And the greenhouse gas emissions from the plastics sector are about 2 gigatons, equivalent to the emissions of 370 million passenger cars. OceansLost, abandoned and discarded fishing gear or ghost gear is some of the deadliest ocean trash, and is super tricky to recover. The Ocean Cleanup is a registered ANBI Foundation in the Netherlands, and their U.S. affiliate, The Ocean Cleanup North Pacific Foundation, is also a Gold-rated US 501(c)(3) nonprofit (EIN 81-5132355). CLEAN UP WITH #TEAMSEAS AND TRACK OUR PROGRESSSIGN UP, By providing your mobile number, you agree to receive text messages from #TeamSeas. For anyone unfamiliar with the two YouTubers . Every dollar donated is equivalent to 1 pound of trash being cleaned up. Ocean Conservancy champions science-based solutions to tackle the largest ocean conservation challenges we face to strengthen the health of the ocean today and for the future. More than 600,000 people from 191 countries came together to make this possible. Wherever and whenever possible, items like cans, glass, and plastic beverage bottles will be separated and recycled. Just like the original campaign that inspired it, #TeamSeas is being led by Mark (Rober), Jimmy (MrBeast) and Campaign Director, Matt Fitzgerald (@fitz350). Thats why we need to reduce the amount of plastic we use and waste we generate, period. By the end, the team on the beach led the competition after picking up more trash by hand than the Interceptor, who was stationed at the water's edge. Ocean Conservancy is a US-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit (EIN 23-7245152) and is rated 4 stars (94/100) by Charity Navigator. They set to raise 20 million dollars, which was achieved. Were dividing our work among three points of intervention: beaches, rivers and oceans. #TeamSeas will be one of the biggest, baddest, most-impactful cleanup projects of all timeand here's how we're doing it. At the end of the day, we hope to create a platform that youanyone reading thiscan genuinely claim as your own. Spread love, mash the RT button, and if you see a way to organize something cool together, well, thats awesome! Many people have joined #TeamSeas.Whether you cleaned up one pound of trash, or a million-and-one, we did this together. The Team Seas event was a non-canonical charity event that was hosted on the Dream SMP where the winner could win an elytra, an item unobtainable due to the rules of the SMP. Just from less than an hour alone, the project already raised $300,000, and has raised at least $3,000,000 from the first day. Its estimated that there are 200M tons of plastic already circulating in marine environments, with an estimated 11M tons entering the ocean EVERY YEAR. The Ocean Cleanup uses solar-powered robots called The Interceptor at the end of some of the world's dirtiest rivers to collect the trash into a giant shuttle that transports it into six dumpsters using conveyor belts. The funded cleanup work will begin in 2022 and is scheduled to conclude in three years. #TeamSeas will support the expansion and continued operation of this work as The Ocean Cleanup takes aim at the 1% of rivers which contribute 80% of the trash flowing into the ocean from rivers. Meta Platforms is the parent company of social media websites such as Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The objective of the event was to collect the most trash from the ocean. There are a lot of ways you can tackle the problem, and we think cleanups are complementary so long as theyre not excuses for delay. For #TeamTrees, we saw artists draw comics for trees, kids hold bakesales, and tech founders one-up each other on the Leaderboard. The Ocean Cleanup is a registered ANBI Foundation in the Netherlands, and their U.S. affiliate, The Ocean Cleanup North Pacific Foundation, is also a Gold-rated US 501(c)(3) nonprofit (EIN 81-5132355). 30,000,000 pounds in kg would be roughly 13.6 million kg. For #TeamSeas, weve partnered up with Ocean Conservancy and The Ocean Cleanup. #TeamSeas", "Powered by the cryptocurrencies: Altrucoin (55K), Medacoin (50K), and BankerDoge (2k). Every single dollar #TeamSeas raises toward the $30M will go to independently verified pounds of trash that have been removed from beaches, rivers or the ocean. #TeamSeas", "Happy to be donating 100k to Teamseas. Made me feel like I wanted to do my part too. The Ocean Cleanup develops and scales technologies to clean up what is already polluting our oceans and to intercept plastic on its way to the ocean via rivers. Team Seas is a brand new global campaign that officially started on Friday, October 29, 2021, at 1.00 pm (PT). Ocean Conservancy has estimated that the crude oil needed to make that much plastic is over 800 times more than the amount spilled during the Exxon Valdez disaster! The money collected will be used to fund trash-collecting boats that will be installed on rivers that connect to oceans, as well as trash-cleaning crews that will manually clean beaches. Great question! So far, #TeamSeas has managed to raise over $3.6 million, with the donation fund increasing by the second. The collected trash is brought to shore to be properly disposed of by local waste management and then cleanup continues. #TEAMSEAS", "CREATORS AND FANS CAN CHANGE THE WORLD! Every river is unique, and for that reason, together with local partners, The Ocean Cleanups team will first conduct research to determine the most efficient solution to clean that specific river. In cases where contamination of the trash and/or lack of local recycling makes it impossible to reprocess, trash will go to a proper disposal site in accordance with local regulations and capacity. The funded cleanup work will begin in 2022 and is scheduled to conclude in three years. "THE UNCONVENTIONAL CHARITY PROJECT GREAT.COM AND @SMILINGERIK ARE MOVING MONEY FROM THE ONLINE CASINO INDUSTRY TO CLEAN UP 500+ TONNES OF TRASH.". (If youre reading this right now, and you love the ocean, we invite you to create something too). Team Seas (stylized as #teamseas) is an ecological project, campaign, and organization created by MrBeast, Mark Rober, and Campaign Director, Matt Fitzgerald. All of the donations from the fundraiser go to the Ocean Conservancy and the Ocean Cleanup, with the organisations splitting the donations. Nearly all of these plastics are made from fossil fuels including crude oil, natural gas liquids and coal. Goal The subscriber growth was given to PewDiePie once again, gaining 244,000 subscribers the day of Jimmy's upload, and 247,000 subscribers the next day. Well also send professional crews to clean up some of the most iconic, vulnerable ocean spaces. Team Seas (or #teamseas) Goal 30,000,000 pounds of trash removed. When you donate, the funds go directly to the two not-for-profit organizations, Ocean Conservancy and The Ocean Cleanup. When Did OpenSea Start. Its also the second wave of the largest creator-led fundraising campaign to ever hit the internet: #TeamTrees. The NFTs cannot be stored in OpenSea, but in your wallet. What would you like to bring to the party? team seas started with the goal of removing 30 million pounds of trash from the ocean with the help of Mr beast and mark rovers team ,however they may have m. Last but not least, we encourage you to engage with other #TeamSeas supporters to weave together all our crazy internet worlds in support of the cause. #TeamSeas will be one of the biggest, baddest, most-impactful cleanup projects of all timeand here's how we're doing it. They set to raise 20 million dollars, which was achieved. Its also the second wave of the largest creator-led fundraising campaign to ever hit the internet: #TeamTrees. Its estimated that there are 200M tons of plastic already circulating in marine environments, with an estimated 11M tons entering the ocean EVERY YEAR. Well also be holding safe, locally-hosted #TeamSeas events leveraging Ocean Conservancys International Coastal Cleanup (ICC) network so #TeamSeas supporters can roll up their sleeves and make an impact firsthand, one pound of trash at a time. Scroll on to see our cutting-edge river Interceptors, info on locally-organized cleanups, ghost-gear removal efforts and professional expeditions to areas where we can have the greatest conservation impact! All of these videos were uploaded as a fundraiser specifically for Team Seas and pretty much all of them include a link to the Team Seas website itself where people could donate to the project. Like Team Trees, Team Seas also has their own. to stabilize shorelines, improve the quality of the water, and provide a natural habitat for fish and other coastal sea life in addition to supporting coral reef health. If you stream on Twitch, check out the TeamSeas campaign tools on Tiltify to let your viewers donate live and your community to fundraise together. Plastic production and climate change are inextricably linked, and both are huge problems for the ocean. Well also be holding safe, locally-hosted #TeamSeas events leveraging Ocean Conservancys International Coastal Cleanup (ICC) network so #TeamSeas supporters can roll up their sleeves and make an impact firsthand, one pound of trash at a time. The $400k donation will help fund the clean-up of 400,000 pounds of trash or 181,436 kgs. BeachesWith the experts at Ocean Conservancy, well send professional crews to clean up some of the most iconic, vulnerable beaches on the planet. It is being spearheaded by MrBeast, along with Mark Rober and Matt Fitzgerald. [8][9], Ocean-cleaning group by MrBeast and Mark Rober, "MrBeast Now Wants to Save the Oceans With 'Team Seas' and Internet is Here for it", "Mark Rober and Mr. With YOUR HELP, #TeamSeas will work with Ocean Conservancy and its partners to remove millions of pounds of plastic and trash from beaches all around the world. This website will offer limited functionality in this browser. MrBeast's donation, in response to Mark Robers's previous donation of $100,010. At the end of the day, we hope to create a platform that youanyone reading thiscan genuinely claim as your own. Start Date As the campaign develops, we hope youll co-create it with us as we rally toward our shared 30M goal. Last but not least, we encourage you to engage with other #TeamSeas supporters to weave together all our crazy internet worlds in support of the cause. ", "The @PonyoInu community is proud to be a part of another amazing cause to save our oceans. Great.com is a Swedish charity company aimed on reversing the global climate crisis. Others have posted screenshots of their donations, encouraging others to do the same. teamseas.org We think youll be surprised at who else is on #TeamSeas and how many fascinating videos are out there for you to discover. Ocean Conservancy will use the best available science and work with its International Coastal Cleanup local partners around the world to identify places where cleanups will have the greatest impact. Pollution from items like bottles, bags, straws and abandoned fishing gear are contributing to a health crisis for the entire planet.[1]. So its a no-brainer that keeping it clean and healthy is critical to our survival. Every single dollar #TeamSeas raises toward the $30M will go to independently verified pounds of trash that have been removed from beaches, rivers or the ocean. Plastic and our oceans dont mix, and were here to do something about it. When you donate, the funds go directly to the two not-for-profit organizations, Ocean Conservancy and The Ocean Cleanup. The American YouTuber launched the campaign in October 2021, intending to clean up 30 million pounds of trash from the ocean. Wherever and whenever possible, items like cans, glass, and plastic beverage bottles will be separated and recycled. Because 30M pounds is A LOT of trash (roughly equivalent to 85 football fields covered a foot deep). Team Seas (or #teamseas) As of the start date of Team Seas, donations are still able to be made on the Team Trees website and planting progress is updated there. So team seas are going to remove 5% of all plastic from the ocean, which is a pretty great start. WHAT IS #TEAMSEAS? The company pledged to match every donation until $400k, delivered the day after the campaign went live. 1 high school women's basketball player by Rivals.com. You can learn more about the plastics-climate connection here. #TeamSeas official social accounts will always be listed here and on the homepage. This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Team Seas article. The Ocean Cleanup is #TeamSeass implementation partner for rivers. Come get the rest! Love this org and everything they're doing! They split the funds 50/50 and the money will be released when the trash is removed and verified: $1, one pound. Sea of Thieves is a 2018 action-adventure game developed by Rare and published by Microsoft Studios.The player assumes the role of a pirate who completes voyages from different trading companies.The multiplayer game sees players explore an open world via a pirate ship from a first-person perspective.Groups of players encounter each other regularly during their adventures, sometimes forming . Thank you for floating a brighter future! Well keep the site up and running the whole time (and you can still plant a tree at TeamTrees.org!). IN 5 HOURS WEVE REMOVED 3,000,000 POUNDS OF TRASH FROM THE OCEAN! Every year, 11 million metric tons of plastics enter our ocean. TeamSeas is a fundraising campaign, initiated by Mark Rober and MrBeast, content creators on YouTube. ", "JRNY NFT CLUB is happy to get on board with MrBeast & Mark Rober for TeamSeas and all future charity events! We also encourage you to engage with and amplify #TeamSeas content across the internet. Their goal is to achieve a 90% reduction of floating ocean plastic by 2040. Great question! Who created Team Seas? Like Team Trees, although it can't fully resolve the issue of plastic being littered in the ocean, it is still a step forward to improving a part of the world's nature. On YouTube, poopiepie. Read about your favorite creators only on TikTok Wiki & Youtube Wiki, Be the first one to comment on this story. The fundraiser was donated to by high-profile individuals like Tobias Lutke (CEO of Shopify), Elon Musk (founder of SpaceX), and Susan Wojcicki (CEO of YouTube). [7][non-primary source needed], On November 1, 2021, Tobi Ltke, CEO of Shopify, donated $1,200,001, exceeding the $1,000,001 he donated to Team Trees. #TeamSeas is a global campaign to raise $30M to remove 30M pounds of plastic and trash from our ocean, rivers and beaches. If you stream on Twitch, check out the TeamSeas campaign tools on Tiltify to let your viewers donate live and your community to fundraise together. Because 30M pounds is A LOT of trash (roughly equivalent to 85 football fields covered a foot deep). OceansLost, abandoned and discarded fishing gear or ghost gear is some of the deadliest ocean trash, and is super tricky to recover. Pollution from items like bottles, bags, straws and abandoned fishing gear is a health crisis for our entire planet. Team Seas, stylized as #TeamSeas, is an international collaborative fundraiser that was started by YouTubers MrBeast and Mark Rober as a follow up to Team Trees. The project currently is worth 32,9 mln usd as of october 2022 [1] It was created by the YouTubers MrBeast and Mark Rober. However, what exactly was this all about, and who did it start from? This project was initially revealed at a Colin & Samir interview. Specially trained experts will grapple or float the gear to the surface, where the gear will be hooked onto boat cranes and lifted out of the ocean. This video was originally supposed to be a collab with @Jadyn but. Talk to a friend, organize your school or business, make some art, film a video, whatever makes sense to you and your community as we work toward 30M. Even two years later, TeamTrees.org is still receiving donations and planting 2,600 trees every day. Luckily the experts with Ocean Conservancys Global Ghost Gear Initiative have The ocean and the life within it are incredibly important. As the campaign develops, we hope youll co-create it with us as we rally toward our shared 30M goal. The project is scheduled to conclude in 2025. Speaking of legit, the only official store for #TeamSeas is store.teamseas.org. We recommend you start by telling someone else about the mission, why youre passionate about it, and invite them to get involved at TeamSeas.org. The campaign aims to bring awareness to the worldwide problem of trash being dumped and collected on beaches, rivers, and oceans. The SEAS program began in the early 90's to support space force modernization. We only support the recent versions of major browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge. Pollution from items like bottles, bags, straws and abandoned fishing gear is a health crisis for our entire planet. Team Seas operates along the same line of work that Team Trees did. Plastic and our oceans dont mix, and were here to do something about it. Royal Caribbean is a line of cruises throughout the Caribbean Sea. Jan 1, 2022 63 Dislike Share Breone 11.9K subscribers Team Seas Did It. You can learn more about the plastics-climate connection here. 30 million pounds of trash covers roughly 85 football fields being foot deep. We totally got this. The Ocean Cleanup has developed technologies for river pollution called Interceptors, which have removed over 2 million pounds to date! The Ocean Cleanup has several Interceptors already deployed in some of the worlds most polluted rivers to catch plastic and trash upstream. "Happy to support a great cause! It's also the second wave of the largest creator-led fundraising campaign to ever hit the internet: #TeamTrees.We launched #TeamTrees in 2019 with a goal of raising $20M to plant 20M trees and we smashed itraising over $23M and generating more than . This article has been rated as Start-Class on the project's quality scale. By reaching a billion people through #TeamSeas videos, and activating new generations of ocean advocates, we hope to inspire a movement and demand for solutions. [2] Spread [ edit] Website teamseas.org Information Start Date October 29, 2021 Goal Reach Date January 1, 2022 Main Video Team Seas (stylized as #teamseas) is an ecological project, campaign, and organization created by MrBeast, Mark Rober, and Campaign Director, Matt Fitzgerald. The premise is simple; YouTube star MrBeast (Jimmy Donaldson) and his frequent collaborator, Mark Rober, joined together with two prolific ocean cleanup organizations: Ocean Conservancy and Ocean Cleanup. Beaches Rivers Oceans Scroll on to see our cutting-edge river Interceptors, info on locally-organized cleanups, ghost-gear removal efforts and professional expeditions to areas where we can have the greatest conservation impact! Ocean Conservancy is #TeamSeass implementation partner for beaches and oceans. The ICC is the largest beach cleanup network in the world (more than 350 million pounds of trash have been collected from beaches in its 35+ year history!). Afterward, the money collected by the fundraiser will be put into use, and the clean-up jobs will begin. Dogs of Elon is a cryptocurrency/NFT group named after entrepeneur Elon Musk's dogs. [2] As of the start date of Team Seas, donations are still able to be made on the Team Trees website and planting progress is updated there. Russell helped the project reach its goal just as the original time period was going to end. Spread Team Seas aims to remove 30,000,000 pounds (14,000,000 kg) of marine debris from the ocean by the end of 2021 by raising 30 million dollars, with one pound removed for every dollar donated. ", "I WAITED TO SEE WHAT MRBEAST DONATED SO I COULD ADD AN EXTRA DOLLAR TO IT". The length of the project is estimated to be around three years. Ocean Conservancy facilitates the International Coastal Cleanup (ICC), one of the worlds largest volunteer cleanup efforts for the ocean. She played college basketball for the Baylor Lady Bears in Waco, Texas.. [2] As of the start date of Team Seas, donations are still able to be made on the Team Trees website and planting progress is updated there. Put new text under old text. A dedicated video specifically for taking out plastic (I Cleaned The World's Dirtiest Beach) was released to MrBeast's main channel on October 29, 2021 at 4:00PM in North Carolina's timezone (or 1PM in Pacific Time), a few days after the second anniversary of Team Trees. Unsupported Browser! On January 1, 2022, just as the original goal time period was going to end, the fundraiser, which was at 26,000,000 dollars, reached 30,000,000 dollars in donations after Austin Russell donated $4,000,000 to the project. The campaign holds a goal of $30 million. At the rate Team Seas is at now, by January 1 . [2] The donations go to Ocean Conservancy and The Ocean Cleanup. 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