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The Ocean Cleanup X AWS – AI to accelerate ocean plastic removal

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New York – July 15, 2025– The Ocean Cleanup, a non-profit organization dedicated to ridding the world’s oceans and rivers of plastic pollution, today announced a collaboration with Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN). This collaboration will leverage AWS’s advanced artificial intelligence, machine learning, and cloud computing capabilities to enable and accelerate The Ocean Cleanup’s goal to clean the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) and remove 90% of floating ocean plastic by 2040.  

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    We tag GPS buoys to ghost nets or megaplastics drifting at sea, allowing us to study ocean currents and predict plastic behavior.
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    We tag GPS buoys to ghost nets or megaplastics drifting at sea, allowing us to study ocean currents and predict plastic behavior.

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