Eight weeks into the System 002 mission and three years since first deploying our technology in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch we are catching plastic. The Ocean Cleanup's Reijnder de Feijter, has been here through it all. In this episode, he takes over Catching Up and discusses initial environmental findings with the onboard Protected Species Observer Sebastian Orue. They reflect on what it's like to see so much waste removed from the ocean and how this impacts their own lives.