YouTuber MrBeast has teamed up with fellow YouTuber Mark Rober to establish TeamSeas, a fundraising campaign aimed at surpassing his prior goal of planting 20 million trees with TeamTrees by cleaning up 30 million pounds of trash from the ocean.
Jimmy Donaldson aka MrBeast linked up with the Team Tree project two years ago to help fund $20 million and plant a staggering 20 million trees. The target was achieved in just two months, many weeks ahead of the January 1st, 2020 deadline.
This year, the creator has formed TeamSeas with scientific YouTuber and engineer Mark Rober, as well as hundreds of other creators, in an attempt to surpass last year’s goal of raising $30 million. Every dollar raised will be used to remove one pound of rubbish from the world’s oceans.
To publicize the campaign, the two gathered volunteers to clean up one of the world’s dirtiest beaches. MrBeast enlisted the services of a professional beach cleaner to help coordinate the effort and supply instruments for separating trash from sand.
After tripling the number of volunteers, the group learned of another beach just down the road that was just as dirty, so they split up to clean both beaches. They removed almost 60,000 pounds of trash by combining the trash collected from both beaches.
MrBeast explained; “Two years ago, we crushed our goal of 20 million trees planted and it’s time to do it again. We’ve teamed up with hundreds of other creators in an effort to raise 30 million dollars to clean 30 million pounds of trash from the ocean by the end of the year.”
The duo went on to say that half of the money raised will go toward volunteer garbage clean-ups like they conducted in the video, while the other half will go toward robots that pick up rubbish from the ocean 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
