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Interceptor 004 in the Rio Ozama, Dominican Republic
Interceptor 004 being deployed in the Rio Ozama, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Interceptor 004 being deployed in the Rio Ozama, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Interceptor 004 deployed in the Rio Ozama, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, August 2020
Interceptor 004 deployed in the Rio Ozama, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, August 2020

The navy of the Dominican Republic, deploying Interceptor 004 in the Rio Ozama, Santo Domingo
Interceptor 004 deployed in the Rio Ozama, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, August 2020
Interceptor 004 deployed in the Rio Ozama, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, August 2020
Interceptor 004 before deployment in the Dominican Republic
Interceptor 004 arrived in Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo
Interceptor 004 arrived in Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo

System 001/B - Parachute configuration, summer 2019
System 001/B - Parachute configuration, summer 2019
System 001/B towed to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
System 001/B is lowered into the water after completed assembly in Vancouver, Canada
System 001 deployed in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, October 2018

System 001 in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, November 2018
System 001 in operation in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, November 2018.
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, September 8, 2018 – The Ocean Cleanup Deploying System 001 into the Great Pacific Garbage Patch - Photo: Pierre AUGIER for The OCEAN CLEANUP
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, September 8, 2018 – The Ocean Cleanup Deploying System 001 into the Great Pacific Garbage Patch - Photo: Pierre AUGIER for The OCEAN CLEANUP
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, September 8, 2018 – The Ocean Cleanup Deploying System 001 into the Great Pacific Garbage Patch - Photo: Pierre AUGIER for The OCEAN CLEANUP
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, September 8, 2018 – The Ocean Cleanup Deploying System 001 into the Great Pacific Garbage Patch - Photo: Pierre AUGIER for The OCEAN CLEANUP
Screen assembly at System 001, April 2018
System 001 almost ready for deployment at assembly yard in Alameda September 2018
Last screen sections being assembled onto System 001 at Alameda assembly yard, August 2018

System 001/B Press Briefing
41m53 2.0 GB
System 001/B footage
56sec 276.8 MB
System 001/B plastic accumulation
1m01 871.1 MB
System 001 Launch - Live Highlights
32min02 3.6 GB

Aerial Footage of System 001 in operations
47sec 685,3 MB
Underwater footage of plastic entering System 001
1min09 965,5MB

Plastic accumulation, System 001/B, October 2019
Crew sorting plastic into size and type classes onboard the support vessel during the System 001/B mission, 2019
Plastic caught by System 001/B in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, 2019
Crew sorting plastic into size and type classes onboard the support vessel during the System 001/B mission, 2019
Crew sorting plastic into size and type classes onboard the support vessel during the System 001/B mission, 2019

Crew sorting plastic into size and type classes onboard the support vessel during the System 001/B mission, 2019
Plastic catch being sorted onboard the vessel in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, during the System 001/B mission 2019
Plastic catch being sorted onboard the vessel in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, during the System 001/B mission 2019
Plastic catch extracted from System 001/B, 2019
Plastic in System 001/B, 2019
Conveyor belt with debris in Klang River, Malaysia, 2019
Conveyor belt with debris in Klang River, Malaysia, 2019
Crew inspecting plastic in System 001/B.
Big bags filled with plastic caught in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch by System 001/B. The Ocean Cleanup will now begin the journey to transform the plastic into products that will help fund the continuation of the cleanup.
Container with big bags of plastic on the vessel in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, during System 001/B mission 2019
Plastic accumulation observed against System 001, 2018.
First plastic accumulated by System 001 in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, October 2018.
Plastic accumulation observed against System 001.

Boyan Slat explains the plans for the plastic catch
12m16 1,4GB
Plastic accumulation in System 001/B
1m01 871.1 MB
Plastic extraction from System 001/B
1m05 973.2 MB
First plastic sorting, tagging and storing
1m15 146.3MB

Boyan Slat unveiling the Interceptor, October 26th, 2019
Boyan Slat at the Interceptor in Klang river, Malaysia
Boyan Slat, CEO and founder, during the live announcement on December 12th in Vancouver, Canada. He gave a recap of Ocean Mission One and explained the next steps for the plastic caught - to turn it into durable products that will help fund the continuation of the cleanup
Boyan Slat on the Interceptor 002 in Klang River, Malaysia
Boyan Slat with the Interceptor, October 2019

Boyan Slat unveiling the Interceptor, October 26th, 2019
Boyan Slat at the Interceptor location in Klang river, Malaysia
Boyan Slat with the Interceptor, October 2019
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, September 8, 2018 – The Ocean Cleanup Launched System 001 into the Great Pacific Garbage Patch from San Francisco - Photo: Pierre AUGIER for The OCEAN CLEANUP
Boyan Slat at the Interceptor in Klang river, Malaysia
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, September 8, 2018 – The Ocean Cleanup Launched System 001 into the Great Pacific Garbage Patch from San Francisco - Photo: Pierre AUGIER for The OCEAN CLEANUP
Boyan Slat on top of System 001, September 2018, before its launch into the North Pacific.
Boyan Slat - The Next Phase - May 11th
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, September 8, 2018 – The Ocean Cleanup Launched System 001 into the Great Pacific Garbage Patch from San Francisco - Photo: Pierre AUGIER for The OCEAN CLEANUP
Boyan Slat with the Interceptor, October 2019
Boyan Slat being interviewed by media on the Alameda System 001 assembly yard, April 2018
Boyan Slat at the Interceptor location in Klang river, Malaysia
Boyan Slat at the Interceptor location in Klang river, Malaysia
Boyan Slat sits in a floater segment of the first cleanup system on the assembly yard, April 2018.
Boyan Slat speaking at the Aerial Expedition press event at Moffett Airfield in Mountain View, California on October 3, 2016
Boyan Slat in a fireside chat with Hege Marie Norheim at the ONS conference in Norway, August 31, 2016. Photo by Morten Berentsen.
May 11, 2017 - Boyan Slat presents the plans on a free-floating system, to be trialed in 2018. Photo: Pierre Augier

System 001/B in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Plastic caught inside System 001/B
Offshore crew retrieving a ghost net
Removing plasic from cleanup system
Plastic stored inside bags after removed from System 001/B

Boyan Slat standing with first plastic catch onshore at end of Mission One press briefing.
Plastic catch sealed off in containers
Plastic auditing between transports
Plastic sorting before recycling process
Ghost nets being processed for recycling
Granulate created from the catch from System 001/B. The plastic will be recycled into a new durable product. The product will be launched in fall 2020, and the sale of it will help fund the ocean cleanup mission of next year.
Granulate created from the catch from System 001/B. The plastic will be recycled into a new durable product. The product will be launched in fall 2020, and the sale of it will help fund the ocean cleanup mission of next year.
Base material creation, July 2020
Base material creation, July 2020

Recycling the plastic
0m37 182,13MB
Sorting the plastic
1m5 317,89 MB
First plastic sealed and offloaded
0m43 85.1MB

Rotterdam, October 26, 2019 - The Ocean Cleanup unveils the Interceptor, the first scalable river cleanup technology.
Rotterdam, October 26, 2019 - The Ocean Cleanup unveils the Interceptor, the first scalable river cleanup technology.
Rotterdam, October 26, 2019 - The Ocean Cleanup unveils the Interceptor, the first scalable river cleanup technology.
Rotterdam, October 26, 2019 - The Ocean Cleanup unveils the Interceptor, the first scalable river cleanup technology.
Rotterdam, October 26, 2019 - The Ocean Cleanup unveils the Interceptor, the first scalable river cleanup technology.

Rotterdam, October 26, 2019 - The Ocean Cleanup unveils the Interceptor, the first scalable river cleanup technology.
$\Rotterdam, October 26, 2019 - The Ocean Cleanup unveils the Interceptor, the first scalable river cleanup technology. Boyan Slat, CEO and founder on stage.$
Rotterdam, October 26, 2019 - The Ocean Cleanup unveils the Interceptor, the first scalable river cleanup technology. Boyan Slat, CEO and founder on stage.
Rotterdam, October 26, 2019 - The Ocean Cleanup unveils the Interceptor, the first scalable river cleanup technology.
Rotterdam, October 26, 2019 - The Ocean Cleanup unveils the Interceptor, the first scalable river cleanup technology.
Rotterdam, October 26, 2019 - The Ocean Cleanup unveils the Interceptor, the first scalable river cleanup technology.
Rotterdam, October 26, 2019 - The Ocean Cleanup unveils the Interceptor, the first scalable river cleanup technology.
Rotterdam, October 26, 2019 - The Ocean Cleanup unveils the Interceptor, the first scalable river cleanup technology.

Boyan Slat introduces the Interceptor - Highlights
6m48 4.93 GB

Boyan Slat on the Interceptor 002 in Klang River, Malaysia
Interceptor™ 002 in Klang river, Selangor, Malaysia
Interceptor™ 002 in Klang river, Selangor, Malaysia
Conveyor belt in Interceptor™ 002 in Klang river, Selangor, Malaysia
Interceptor™ 002 in Klang river, Selangor, Malaysia

Interceptor™ 002 in Klang river, Selangor, Malaysia
Interceptor™ 002 in Klang river, Selangor, Malaysia
Interceptor™ 002 in Klang river, Selangor, Malaysia
Interceptor™ 002 in Klang river, Selangor, Malaysia

Interceptor™ 002 in operation in Malaysia
1m0 1,32 GB
Interceptor™ 002 in Malaysia installed
1m15 1,64 GB
Interceptor™ 002 in Lift and Installation
1m07 1,47 GB

Interceptor 001™ in Cengkareng drain, Jakarta, Indonesia
Interceptor 001™ in Cengkareng drain, Jakarta, Indonesia
Interceptor 001™ conveyor belt
Interceptor 001™ in Cengkareng drain, Jakarta, Indonesia
The Ocean Cleanup crew with local operator in Jakarta, Indonesia

Interceptor™ 001 in Cengkareng drain, Jakarta, Indonesia
0m39 875 MB

Trail of plastic floating in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Motagua River, Guatemala, plastic pollution
Plastic pollution washed up on a beach in Dominican Republic
Motagua River, Guatemala, plastic pollution
A young monk seal on Laysan Island holds a plastic fragment in his mouth. Photo credits: Matthew Chauvin

A bird surrounded by ocean plastic on the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. **Photo credits: Matthew Chauvin**
Plastic floating in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Plastic debris washed up from a river in Indonesia.
Plastic bottles floating in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Crate dating back to the 1977 from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, caught durign the Mega Expedition (2015).
Hard hat (1989) from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, caught during the Mega Expedition (2015)
Nintendo Gameboy piece (1995) from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, caught during the Mega Expedition (2015)
River plastic in Guatemala
River plastic in Guatemala
River pollution in Malaysia
Waste on a river bank, Myanmar, September 2016
Waste on a river bank, Myanmar, September 2016
The crew retrieves a large ghostnet from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, November 2018.
Ghostnet hauled aboard during Mega Expedition 2015

1.6 million square kilometers, three times the size of France - Illustration (gif)
1.8 trillion pieces of plastic - Illustration (gif)
How plastic pollution travels up the food chain
The 5 ocean gyres, where currents converge forming a vortex for plastic to circulate in.

River Pollution Footage
1m33 2,2 GB

Manta trawl (starboard) and underwater trawl (stern - cable from blue A-frame) during deep sea research mission 2018. The aim of the mission was to see if the plastic afloat in ocean garbage patches can pollute the deep sea below.
CTD (Conductivity, Temperature, Density) profiler during deep sea research 2018. The aim of the mission was to see if the plastic afloat in ocean garbage patches can pollute the deep sea below.
Counting and categorizing the sampled microplastic during the deep sea expedition 2018. The aim of the mission was to see if the plastic afloat in ocean garbage patches can pollute the deep sea below.
River plastic research in Malaysia, conducted by The Ocean Cleanup crew and local research partners.
River plastic research in Guatemala

River plastic research in Malaysia, conducted by The Ocean Cleanup crew and local research partners
River plastic research in Malaysia, conducted by The Ocean Cleanup crew and local research partners.
The Ocean Cleanup research team processes ocean plastic samples in the laboratory.
The Ocean Cleanup research team processes ocean plastic samples in the laboratory.
Laurent Lebreton, Lead Oceanographer at The Ocean Cleanup, carrying out desk research
Counting of microplastics in The Ocean Cleanup's lab
Lead Oceanographer Laurent Lebreton logging data aboard the Ocean Force One during the Aerial Expedition, 2016.
Ocean Force One's arrival at Moffett Airfield in Mountain View, California, Aerial Expedition 2016
The Ocean Cleanup team and Aerial Expedition crew
Aerial Expedition 2016: Sensor equipment; a CZMIL system which uses LiDAR to create a 3D-image of the ghost nets (left), and a SASI hyperspectral SWIR imaging system, which uses an infrared camera to detect ocean plastic (right).
Mega Expedition mothership R/V Ocean Starr fully deployed above the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, 2015.
Mega Expedition research vessel deploying manta trawl.
Manta trawl deployed during Mega Expedition.

Modeled mass concentration of plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch in Numbers - Infographic
Plastic mass distribution within the Great Pacific Garbage Patch between size (bars) and type (colours) classes.
The journey of floating ocean plastic from rivers to garbage patches

Projection of floating plastic mass in ocean surface layer
Age distribution of floating plastic objects found in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Modeled age distribution of plastic

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch - Animation by in60seonds
2min41 235,3 MB
Boyan Slat, Founder & CEO Explaining our research of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (2018)
7min28 6,1 GB
Laurent Lebreton, Lead Oceanographer - About the Great Pacific Garbage Patch Research Results (2018)
2min32 2 GB
River Waste Image Recognition Algorithm
0m10 4m05

Various footage of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch research - Mega Expedition, Aerial Expedition, Laboratory
5min59 4,9 GB
Aerial Expedition Press Conference at Mofett Airfield
12min42 1,8 GB

The Ocean Cleanup Announces Pacific Cleanup to Start in 2018
The Ocean Cleanup Announces Pacific Cleanup to Start in 2018 Photo: Pierre AUGIER for The OCEAN CLEANUP
The Ocean Cleanup Announces Pacific Cleanup to Start in 2018 Photo: Pierre AUGIER for The OCEAN CLEANUP
May 11, 2017 - Boyan Slat presents the plans on a free-floating system, to be trialed in 2018. Photo: Pierre Augier
May 11, 2017 - Boyan Slat presents the plans on a free-floating system, to be trialed in 2018. Photo: Pierre Augier

UTRECHT, THE NETHERLANDS, May 11, 2017 – The Ocean Cleanup, the Dutch foundation developing advanced technologies to rid the oceans of plastic, today announced it will start extracting plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch within the next 12 months. The Ocean Cleanup further announced that parts of its first cleanup system are already in production. Thanks to an improved design, The Ocean Cleanup has increased the efficiency of the system, allowing for the cleanup of half the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in just 5 years. Photo: Pierre AUGIER for The OCEAN CLEANUP
UTRECHT, THE NETHERLANDS, May 11, 2017 – The Ocean Cleanup, the Dutch foundation developing advanced technologies to rid the oceans of plastic, today announced it will start extracting plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch within the next 12 months. The Ocean Cleanup further announced that parts of its first cleanup system are already in production. Thanks to an improved design, The Ocean Cleanup has increased the efficiency of the system, allowing for the cleanup of half the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in just 5 years. Photo: Pierre AUGIER for The OCEAN CLEANUP
May 11, 2017 - Boyan Slat presents the plans on a free-floating system, to be trialed in 2018. Photo: Pierre Augier

Pacific Cleanup set to start in 2018 - Boyan Slat - Full version
30min08 3,4 GB
Pacific Cleanup set to start in 2018 - Boyan Slat - 5min highlights
5min57 1,3 GB