This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by ArjunPatel33
Mr.Beast and Mark Rober get together for a second time to help the environment.
The fruit of their collaboration is Team Seas – an initiative to stop ocean pollution. The charismatic duo launched #TeamSeas on October 29th. Through their social media profiles, they announced the campaign that hopes to clean 30 million pounds of trash from rivers, oceans, and beaches.
With the help of two non-profit organizations, Team Seas hopes to achieve its goal by January 1st, 2022.
Team Seas And the Power of the Internet
Mr.Beast and Mark Rober are no strangers to using the internet for good. It’s almost two years since the duo launched the project Team Trees. Team Trees was a charity project where fans would donate money and the organization would plant an equal amount of trees. The goal of Team Trees was to plant 20 million trees. Given that Team Trees was a huge internet success, Mr.Beast and Mark Rober went from planting trees to cleaning plastic from our oceans.
The campaign is already attracting hundreds of thousands of donors. Fans can chip in as little as $1 to this worthy cause. With Team Trees existing for only a few days, fans and celebrities already managed to fund $11 million. Through the power of the internet, Team Trees attracts donations with little to no advertisement.
Mr.Beast and Mark Rober got together with smaller content creators to promote the event and raise awareness for a huge environmental issue. Through social media posts and YouTube fundraiser videos, the campaign got off to a rocking start.
In the first 5 hours, fans raised a million dollars! One of the very first big-money donations was a $400,000 donation from YouTube Originals – YouTube’s very own production house.
Team Seas Receives Million-Dollar Donations
The hype around the project took the internet by storm. News outlets wrote articles, content creators made videos, and the duo even made an appearance live on Jimmy Kimmel. In the interview, Mark Rober explained that most of the donations they receive are from ordinary people on the internet.
The charity also attracted a couple of million-dollar donations like Tobi Lütke from Shopify, Erik Bergman from Great.com, and the Bikeoff Foundation. In a Twitter thread, Mr.Beast asked Elon to beat the leader donation and be the highest donation. While Musk is yet to reply, that doesn’t stop people chipping in whatever they can.
A single dollar removes a pound of trash, and that’s something the internet can get behind. While there is still a long way to go, fans are anticipating who the highest donation will be next. Will Elon Musk pass Great.com donation? Only time will tell.
A Worthy Cause the Internet Can Get Behind
Mr.Beast and Mark Rober and proving everybody wrong for the second time that the internet can do good. As both of them said, “The internet isn’t only a place for drama and BS.”
Team Trees was a massive success and they still receive donations to this day. Team Seas hops to have the same level of success as Team Trees. But the ultimate goal of both projects is to raise awareness for both environmental issues. Team Trees shed light on an issue that governments hope to bury. Nearly 2.4 million trees are cut down every single day. That amasses to 900 million trees every year.
According to National Geographic, our oceans are filled with 5.25 trillion pieces of trash. Most of the pollution comes from 1% of highly-polluted rivers. The trash makes its way from these rivers to the oceans and back to the beaches. It pollutes wildlife, endangers it, and kills it. We’ve found plastic pieces in the insides of whales, turtles, and even small fish. It is a never-ending problem that only a few organizations are actively battling.
That’s why Team Seas partners with the Ocean Conservancy and the Ocean Cleanup. Every donation goes to both non-profit organizations. With the help of both organizations, Team Seas hopes to clean the dirtiest rivers and stop trash from going into the ocean.
These organizations have the experience, the trained personnel, and the means to solve the problem. Mark Rober gave us a tour of one of their trash-eating robots in his latest YouTube video. The robot collects plastic and stores it in specialized containers where the plastic is then sent for recycling. One of these trash-eating robots is operated by the Dominican Republic. Although the non-profit organizations make these robots, they donate them to the countries that most need them.
Credit: Mark Rober YT
The Dominican Republic is indeed one of these countries after a shocking video of an endless wave of trash washing ashore emerges.
Every Dollar Counts
Whether you’re a millionaire, a billionaire, a fan of Mr.Beast and Mark Rober, or simply someone who wants to help, you can do so by donating to Team Seas. Apart from donations, you can also buy their merchandise as that also goes to funding the waste-collecting campaign. Mr.Beast even said that fans can organize volunteer meetups and do their part to raise awareness in anyway they can.
What are you thoughs on #TeamSeas?
This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by ArjunPatel33
ArjunPatel33 | Sciencx (2021-11-07T11:00:36+00:00) How #TeamSeas Proves the Internet Can Do Good. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2021/11/07/how-teamseas-proves-the-internet-can-do-good/
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