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14 June 2023 Interceptor Barricade Makes Promising Start in Guatemala ahead of First Seasonal Heavy Floods
15 May 2023 60 Leading Innovators Against Plastic Pollution Call for a Pragmatic and Inclusive Global Plastics Treaty
12 May 2023 The Ocean Cleanup Announces New Interceptor for Cisadane River, Indonesia
8 March 2023 The Ocean Cleanup and Municipality of Guatemala City Agree Cooperation Agreement to Tackle Plastic Pollution in Rivers
9 February 2023 UNDP and The Ocean Cleanup Team up to Tackle Plastic Pollution

3 February 2023 Airbnb and Samara Co-Founder Joe Gebbia Donates $25 Million to The Ocean Cleanup
14 November 2022 Indonesia Enters New Agreement With the Netherlands and the Ocean Cleanup to Reduce Marine Debris From Rivers
1 September 2022 Over 75% Of Plastic in Great Pacific Garbage Patch Originates From Fishing
28 April 2022 The Ocean Cleanup and Kia announce Global Partnership
11 January 2022 The Coca-Cola Company and The Ocean Cleanup Join Forces in Vietnam to Tackle Plastic Pollution
20 October 2021 The Ocean Cleanup Proves Viability of Technology with System 002; Removal of Plastic from Great Pacific Garbage Patch to Begin Immediately
2 June 2021 The Ocean Cleanup and The Coca-Cola Company Announce Partnership
30 April 2021 1000 Rivers Emit Nearly 80% of Riverine Plastic Pollution into Worlds Oceans, Newly Published Research Shows
25 March 2021 Coldplay Adopts Interceptor to Join The Ocean Cleanup Mission
13 January 2021 The Ocean Cleanup, A.P. Moller – Maersk Extend Relationship with New Three-Year Partnership
10 December 2020 The Ocean Cleanup Prepares for Series Production of Interceptor – Partners with Konecranes
24 October 2020 The Ocean Cleanup Introduces First Product Made with Ocean Plastic Pollution
7 May 2020 The Ocean Cleanup Wins $1M Award from Benioff Ocean Initative to Combat River Plastic Waste in Jamaica
12 December 2019 The Ocean Cleanup Completes Mission One in Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Announces Plans to Make Products from Plastic Catch
26 October 2019 The Ocean Cleanup Unveils Plan to Address the Main Source of Ocean Plastic Pollution: Rivers
2 October 2019 The Ocean Cleanup Successfully Catches Plastic in Great Pacific Garbage Patch
12 September 2019 New Understanding on Whereabouts of Missing Ocean Plastic
27 August 2019 The Ocean Cleanup is awarded Macquarie 50th Anniversary Award
8 September 2018 The World’s First Ocean Cleanup System Launched from San Francisco
22 March 2018 Great Pacific Garbage Patch Growing Rapidly, Study Shows
21 December 2017 Research Shows How Plastic at Sea Turns into Toxic Fish Food
7 June 2017 First Estimate to Quantify Global Plastic Input from Rivers into Oceans
11 May 2017 The Ocean Cleanup Announces Pacific Cleanup to Start in 2018
3 May 2017 The Ocean Cleanup Raises 21.7 Million USD in Donations to Start Pacific Cleanup Trials
3 October 2016 Ocean Plastic Pollution Worse Than Expected
22 June 2016 The Ocean Cleanup Unveils First Prototype
8 June 2016 The Ocean Cleanup Secures Full Funding For Prototype
23 August 2015 The Ocean Cleanup Prepares For 2020 Pacific Cleanup, Successfully Completes Mega Expedition Reconnaissance Mission
31 July 2015 The Ocean Cleanup Prepares For Pacific Cleanup, Embarks On Largest Reasearch Expedition In History
20 June 2015 World’s First Ocean Cleaning System To Be Deployed In 2016
20 April 2015 The Ocean Cleanup Launches Mega Expedition
15 September 2014 Crowd Funding Campaign The Ocean Cleanup Successfully Completed
3 June 2014 19-Year-Old Invents Feasibile Solution To Cleanup Ocean Garbage Patches

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18 September 2023 The Inertia L.A. County Installed a Massive Trash Interceptor; Could This Be Our Post-Rain Solution?
21 August 2023 The World Cleaning up the Pacific Garbage Patch — one trawler at a time
16 August 2023 Good Morning America Ocean cleanup group removes record 25,000 pounds of trash from Great Pacific Garbage Patch in one extraction
6 August 2023 Le Monde Du Guatemala au Honduras, le fleuve Motagua charrie des milliers de tonnes de plastique
4 August 2023 Huffington Post As Climate Fears Grow, Here’s A Reminder Of How Humans Can Actually Help The Planet

25 May 2023 The New York Times Humanity Is Addicted to Plastic, but We Can Still Keep It Out of Our Oceans
15 May 2023 Forbes New Innovation Alliance Calls For Pragmatic Global Plastics Treaty
11 May 2023 Los Angeles Times 77 tons less trash made it into the ocean thanks to this experimental L.A. County device
18 April 2023 CNN The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now so huge and permanent that a coastal ecosystem is thriving on it, scientists say
17 April 2023 NPR This floating ocean garbage is home to a surprising amount of life from the coasts
28 March 2023 Mashable Plastic pollution is clogging a river in Guatemala. Can we ever clean it?
21 March 2023 LA Times Trash interceptor weathers the storms, sparing Pacific from thousands of pounds of garbage
12 March 2023 SXSW Featured Session of SXSW 2023: The Largest Cleanup in History
27 February 2023 BBC Ocean plastic: How tech is being used to clean up waste problem
15 February 2023 Forbes The Ocean Cleanup Readies Launch of System 03, With Three Times The Plastic-Collecting
2 February 2023 Fortune Airbnb’s cofounder just donated $25 million to get plastic out of the ocean and tackle the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
23 January 2023 Nature Boyan Slat founded and operates a business that seeks to reduce ocean plastic pollution by 90%
5 January 2023 LA Times Storm is an ‘extreme test’ of waste capture system protecting the Pacific from L.A. runoff
4 January 2023 ABC7 LA County using Dutch nonprofit’s device to keep trash out of the Pacific Ocean
4 January 2023 Fast Company In L.A., this sleek barrier kept 35,000 pounds of trash out of the ocean
11 November 2022 BBC Business Daily Meets: Boyan Slat
2 September 2022 Science Alert Much of The Great Pacific Garbage Patch’s Plastic Comes From These 5 Countries
1 September 2022 Nature Ocean ‘garbage patch’ is filled with fishing gear from just a few places
3 August 2022 CNBC How three companies are cleaning up the world’s plastic-choked rivers
9 June 2022 Reuters Cleanup crews trap plastic on Guatemalan river to protect ocean
8 June 2022 The Washington Post Activists try giant screen to clean up Guatemalan river
29 April 2022 Zigwheels Kia partners with The Ocean Cleanup for solutions to plastic pollution
23 February 2022 CNET The Ocean Cleanup Now Offers More River Interceptors
16 February 2022 Newsweek Ocean cleanup accused of staging removal after plastic looked too clean
2 February 2022 CNN CNN Meio Dia – 2 de fevereiro de 2022 (at 2:42:10)
11 November 2021 Pioneers Post Turn off the tap! The river robots that fight ocean plastic
11 November 2021 Elmundo Boyan Slat, el don Quijote de La Mancha (oceánica)
2 November 2021 CNET The Ocean Cleanup Begins Cleaning the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
29 October 2021 USA Today They pulled 63,000 pounds of trash from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, but that’s just the start
20 October 2021 Global News Cleanup crews return to B.C. marking ‘major milestone’ in mission to rid oceans of trash
15 October 2021 UNILAD Ocean Cleanup Extracts 20,000 Pounds Of Rubbish From Pacific Garbage Patch
15 October 2021 Business Insider A half-mile installation just took 20,000 pounds of plastic out of the Pacific – proof that ocean garbage can be cleaned
13 October 2021 Oils & Fats International Maersk partnership announces promising results from HVO trial
9 September 2021 Global News Ocean cleanup crew return to Victoria with 8 tonnes of plastic pollution
22 June 2021 PADI PADI and The Ocean Cleanup Join Forces to Tackle Oceans Plastic
8 June 2021 CNET Floating trash collectors are stopping garbage from reaching the ocean
2 June 2021 Forbes The Coca-Cola Company And The Ocean Cleanup Join Forces To Clean Up 15 Of The World’s Most Polluting Rivers Of Plastic Waste
4 May 2021 Yahoo Thousands of rivers (not just 10) are causing most global plastic pollution, study finds
1 May 2021 BBC Plastic pollution: ‘It’s not 10 rivers, it’s 1,000’
30 April 2021 National Geographic Plastic Gets to the Oceans Through Over 1,000 rivers
25 October 2020 New Atlas [The] Ocean Cleanup sunglasses debuts its first Sunglasses made from Plastic Waste
24 October 2020 Fast Company Garbage has never looked as cool as these Pacific Garbage Patch sunglasses
24 October 2020 CNET The Ocean Cleanup’s Boyan Slat shows off new shades made from ocean plastic
2 July 2020 Diplomat Magazine Spanish Embassy candidate Wins 2020 FPdGi International Award
14 May 2020 Forbes How The Ocean Cleanup Plans To Work With Brands To Solve The Problem Of Plastic
30 April 2020 The economist How to stop plastic getting into the ocean
29 January 2020 My TF1 Quotidien deuxieme partie du 29 janvier 2020 avec Vincent Dedienne, Catherine Frot et Boyan Slat
21 January 2020 Adweek Why You Should Think Irrationally in 2020 Like These Brands Did
13 January 2020 Weforum This is how The Ocean Cleanup’s mission to clear the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is going
15 December 2019 CBS [The] Ocean Cleanup Finishes 1st Round Of Great Pacific Garbage Patch Project
13 December 2019 CNET The Ocean Cleanup celebrates first haul of plastic from the Great Pacific garbage patch
2 November 2019 NowThis Meet Boyan Slat, Founder of The Ocean Cleanup Project
28 October 2019 La Vanguardia Interceptor: solución para que los ríos no llenen los mares de plásticos
27 October 2019 Bild Ocean Cleanup sagt Plastik in 1000 Flüssen den Kampf an
26 October 2019 Fast Company The Ocean Cleanup project is now cleaning plastic out of rivers to stop it from getting to the ocean
26 October 2019 Bloomberg The Ocean Cleanup Unveils New Device
26 October 2019 CNET Boyan Slat of The Ocean Cleanup talks up his latest invention, The Interceptor
3 October 2019 CNN A floating device created to clean up plastic from the ocean is finally doing its job, organizers say
3 October 2019 The Guardian Ocean cleanup device successfully collects plastic for first time
2 October 2019 NOS Nieuwe plasticvanger werkt een stuk beter, zegt Ocean Cleanup
2 October 2019 Bild Ocean Cleanup fischt jetzt Plastik aus dem Meer
2 October 2019 Forbes The Ocean Cleanup Is Capturing Plastic, Prepping A Larger Trash-Collecting System
2 October 2019 Fast Company The Ocean Cleanup device is finally catching plastic
16 September 2019 The New Yorker Where does all the plastic go?
12 September 2019 Business Insider A 25-year-old’s mission to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch has yielded a new discovery — and it means the plastic problem is even worse than we thought
10 September 2019 UN Environment Programme Boyan Slat: Dutch engineer-turned-cleaner puts faith in humanity’s ‘better angels’
16 August 2019 Forbes The Ocean Cleanup Has Good News, Hopes To Resume Plastic Cleanup Soon
4 February 2019 The New Yorker A Grand Plan to Clean the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
11 January 2019 Forbes Founder Of Ocean Cleanup Vows Return, Says Failure Talk Is ‘Rubbish’
16 December 2018 CBS 60 minutes – Cleaning up the Plastic in the Ocean
14 October 2018 vpro documentary Boyan Slat’s Plastic Hunt – Documentary
18 September 2018 Wired Marc Benioff Bets on Cleanup Tech for Ocean Trash
16 September 2018 Business Insider What the creators of the giant plastic-cleaning system headed to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch say to critics who doubt them
10 September 2018 Business Insider The massive plastic-cleaning device invented by a 24-year-old is headed out to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch — here’s what the launch looked like
10 September 2018 CNET The Ocean Cleanup launches its plastic collecting system
9 September 2018 USA Today It took 5 years, now the Ocean Cleanup system is heading to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
7 September 2018 Fast Company The Ocean Cleanup vessel is on its way to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
7 September 2018 BBC Giant plastic catcher heads for Pacific Ocean clean-up
28 August 2018 Forbes The Ocean Cleanup Is Starting, Aims To Cut Garbage Patch By 90% By 2040
16 June 2018 Bloomberg The Nonprofit Startup Taking on ‘The Great Pacific Garbage Patch’
13 June 2018 NBC A young Dutch inventor wants to clean plastic from the ocean. Can he do it?
20 April 2018 Fast Company The Revolutionary Giant Ocean Cleanup Machine Is About To Set Sail
18 April 2018 CBS Plan To Clean Up Great Pacific Garbage Patch Nears Launch
22 March 2018 The New York Times The ‘Great Pacific Garbage Patch’ Is Ballooning, 87,000 Tons of Plastic and Counting
22 March 2018 The Guardian ‘Great Pacific garbage patch’ sprawling with far more debris than thought
7 December 2017 EW Magazine Dit is de Nederlander van het Jaar 2017
4 August 2017 The Telegraph ‘It’s important to at least try’: Can this 23-year-old clear the oceans of plastic waste?
28 June 2017 CNN Floating a new idea for garbage collection
26 June 2017 BBC A 22 year-old has a plan to clear the oceans of plastic
16 June 2017 Outside We just dumped 11 million pounds of plastic in the ocean
15 June 2017 El Pais La mayor limpieza (del océano) de la historia
8 June 2017 Daily Mail Rivers found to feed plastic to oceans in new study
16 May 2017 Reuters Dutchman wants to deploy barriers to gather, recycle Pacific plastic
15 May 2017 BBC How do you clean up the ocean’s biggest rubbish dump?
12 May 2017 O Globo Jovem de 22 anos apresenta plano para tirar plásticos do oceano
11 May 2017 Business Insider Dutch group says it will soon start cleaning up ocean trash
11 May 2017 Business Insider A 22-year-old is moving ahead with a controversial plan to trap plastic floating in the great Pacific garbage patch
11 May 2017 Fast Company Boy Genius Boyan Slat’s Giant Ocean Cleanup Machine is Real
11 May 2017 ABC News Effort to clean up ocean plastic to begin in the next 12 months
11 May 2017 CBS Group To Clean Up Pacific Garbage Patch 2 Years Earlier Than Planned
22 April 2017 CNBC Why Peter Thiel believes in this 22-year-old’s dream to clean up the oceans
31 January 2017 Reader's Digest European of the Year: Boyan Slat Wants to Clean Up the Oceans
10 January 2017 The Washington Post A young man tries to save the oceans from plastic with floating noodle look-alikes
4 October 2016 The Guardian ‘Great Pacific Garbage Patch’ Far Bigger Than Imagined, Aerial Survey Shows
3 October 2016 HUFFPOST The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Is Even Worse Than We Feared
3 October 2016 ABC7 Researchers At Moffett Field Aim To Clean Great Pacfic Garbage Patch
18 August 2016 USA Today Meet The Guy Trying To Clean Up The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
14 August 2016 PBS Can This Project Clean Up Millions Of Tons Of Ocean Plastic?
8 July 2016 CBC 21-year-old Boyan Slat Wants To Rid The World’s Oceans Of Plastic
5 July 2016 Paradigm Ocean Trash Cleanup Test Underway
23 June 2016 The Economist Garbage In, Garbage Out: Marine Plastic
22 June 2016 The Guardian Dutch Prototype Clean-up Boom Brings Pacific Plastics Solution a Step Closer
22 June 2016 NOS Prototype Inzamelmachine Voor Plasticsoep De Noordzee In
14 June 2016 El Pais Océanos de plástico
14 June 2016 HUFFPOST Passion-driven Innovation to Save Our Oceans
9 June 2016 The Times Sea-cleaning dam stretches its arms
8 June 2016 HUFFPOST 21-Year-Old’s Miracle Ocean-Cleaning Tech Ready To Get Its Feet Wet
13 May 2016 Inhabitat Plastic-scooping Ocean Cleanup project wins prestigious Katerva Award
11 February 2016 HUFFPOST The Largest Ocean Cleanup In History Will Begin By 2020, And A 21-year-old Is Leading The Way.
2 February 2016 The Sydney Morning Herald Boyan Slat’s high school project raises millions to clean up world’s oceans
1 February 2016 The Washington Post Can the ‘largest cleanup in history’ save the ocean?
31 December 2015 Inhabitat Ocean Cleanup Array to be tested in the North Sea next year
13 November 2015 The Guardian World’s largest ocean cleanup operation one step closer to launch
24 August 2015 Reuters Researchers sample enormous oceanic trash vortex ahead of clean-up proposal
24 August 2015 CBS Mega Expedition returns from Great Pacific Garbage Patch
24 August 2015 EcoWatch Boyan Slat’s ‘Mega Expedition’ Shows ‘Our Oceans Are Riddled With Plastic’
29 May 2015 Aljazeera World’s first ocean system targeting plastic pollution to launch in 2016
8 April 2015 EcoWatch 20 Year Old Claims He Can Rid the World’s Oceans of Plastic
26 March 2013 Inhabitat 19-Year-Old Develops Ocean Cleanup Array That Could Remove 7,250,000 Tons Of Plastic From the World’s Oceans