One Day, 20,234 Pounds of Trash

We're going to do what's called Barge Day, and Barge Day is pure chaos. It is like the bees of a beehive are just going nuts, like, oh, yeah. It's going to be an epic day, so I can't wait for everybody to be able to see that. It's going to be it's going to be awesome. It's about four in the morning and today it's our Super Bowl. All the hard work cleaning up all that plastic. It's now time to pick it up on a barge run and bring it back to Puerto Barrios facility. We've got to get to the barge before sunrise, before the wind kicks up, so that when we bring the pangas and the skiffs up to the barge, it's calm. It's flat water. Otherwise, it's too rough and it's too gnarly and too dangerous. It's an early day. I'm fired up, baby. Let's do it. Look at this guy. He's geared up. Look at the sun literally on the super side. Am I filming? Yes. We're live. We're live. We got the skiffs on the horizon, the super sacks behind us. We got the gear. The barge is out offshore. We're down here in Guatemala working with the crews, and today's barge day where we're loading up all the super sacks from all the plastic we collected off this beach. And just want to take a quick minute, say thank you to everybody out there. Just doing it one by one, baby. One pound at a time. These guys can run laps around anybody. They're stacking so high on that barge back there that to get it four or five high, it's got to be light on that top end. So it's kind of interesting to kind of manage that. So that base layer is the heavy ones and the upper, upper levels are light. I'm starting to pick up on the system and they definitely got it dialed in. Nice. Bro, those ones down there, they were heavy. They were heavy. Yeah, they're wet. And then like these are all PET, so they're like pretty light. But those ones, they were not. Oh, OK. All right. So we're going to go to the barge now. We're going to take this skiff and go help the team stack these super sacks. Antonio! Mi amigo! Woohoo! Oh, yeah, that's what I'm talking about right there, baby. Let's go. I got to tell you, the work ethic of all our crew down here in Guatemala is unbelievable. You've got people literally sprinting, hucking super sacks. Now get ready. Watch how fast this thing's going to be uploaded. Wow. Short work of this right here. Look at that barge out there. I don't know if you can see it, but that right there is a product of your support. We were able to do this because of what you did. Thank you so much. Look what we accomplished together. This is amazing. 20,000 pounds around on that barge, headed to be recycled and processed. And it all happened because of you guys at home. Congratulations. We did it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Exhausting? Heavy, heavy super sacks. Once you start that yawning. Throwing them all over the boat, loading them up, but. Felt good. Dude, Santiago. Santiago, mi amigo! Santiago, mi amigo. No joke, you'll see, was running me over. Like, I'm not even kidding you. Like trying to pull the thing off. And he's just like, like sprinting, pulling the super sack, like throwing it, hucking it over his shoulder. I'm literally like, I got to get out of this man's way. He's going to plow me over. Dude, he's an animal. Like a deep squat. Santiago, mi amigo, mi amigo. Santiago, mi amigo. Tu estas un animal. Mas fuerte. Mas, mas fuerte. Whooo! Yeah. We need to make a medal for Santiago. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday dear Byron. Happy birthday to you. Whooo! The barge just got here to Port Barrow's facility. This thing is loaded down. We've got everybody patiently waiting. We're going to offload all these super sacks, stage them in this area, get each one individually weighed, documented, and photographed. And then it's going over to our sorting station, getting ready to be processed and recycled. So it's about to, all hell's about to break loose here any second. So we're excited. We're exhausted, but we're excited. This is it. You ready? Got him. It's so crazy, because you never know what you're going to get. One super sack weighs like 40 pounds, 50 pounds, and you can just huck it. Next one you grab is like 200 pounds, and you just like absolutely throw out your back. All right, Jenny. What do you got, Jenny? I'm waiting. Jenny, this is the last bag. The last bag for Miss Jenny. The last bag, 142, baby. Last bag, baby. Let's go. That's it, y'all. Now it's time to tally this up. See what the total weight was. 20,158 pounds unofficial. 20,000. 20K, baby, let's go. 20,000 pounds of plastic. That's what I'm talking about. My gosh, 17 and a half hours. We're going to wrap up, guys. Appreciate you coming along. Over and out.