Milestones

By systematically eliminating technical risks through rapid iterations, we aim to reach full-scale deployment in both rivers and oceans. Our ultimate goal is to clean up 90% of the world’s floating ocean plastic by 2040.

The future
  • Scale-up in Rivers
  • Beyond System 03
    Scale-up in oceans
The present
  • 2021
    System 002

    System 002

    After successful trials in 2021, System 002 has proven our ocean cleanup technology works, and we will continue to harvest more plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch until the completion of System 03. Follow our progress here.

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The past
  • 2020
    Recycled The First Plastic Catch
  • June – November 2019
    System 001/B – Catching the First Plastic
  • 2018
    System 001 – First Ocean Cleanup System
  • Mid-2018-Today
    Interceptor™ 2.0
  • October 2017-Today
    Interceptor 001 – The First River Technology
  • 2016
    Aerial Expedition
  • 2016
    First North Sea Prototype
  • 2016 - Today
    River research projects
  • 2015-2016
    Developing the Interceptor™ Concept
  • 2015
    Scale model testing
  • 2015
    Mega expedition
  • 2013-2015
    Vertical distribution research
  • 2014
    Crowd Funding Campaign
  • 2014
    Feasibility Study
  • 2013
    How It All Began – Founding The Ocean Cleanup