The fundraiser pledged to remove 30,000,000 pounds (14,000,000 kg) of marine debris from the ocean by removing 1 pound (0.45 kg) of marine debris from the ocean for every 1 dollar donated.

[1] The preceding fundraiser, Team Trees, was started on October 25, 2019, by MrBeast and Mark Rober.

[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).

On YouTube, thousands of creators from 145 countries, with a combined follow count of 1 billion, created videos about the fundraiser.

[7][8] On 10 May 2023, Donaldson, Rober, and the Team Seas twitter account jointly reported that the campaign was halfway done, and that 112,000 volunteers had cleaned 15.1 million pounds of waste in 63 countries.