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Press Releases
- 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
Our Media Gallery
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Featured Media Coverage
- 2 September 2022 Much of The Great Pacific Garbage Patch’s Plastic Comes From These 5 Countries
- 1 September 2022 Ocean ‘garbage patch’ is filled with fishing gear from just a few places
- 3 August 2022 How three companies are cleaning up the world’s plastic-choked rivers
- 9 June 2022 Cleanup crews trap plastic on Guatemalan river to protect ocean
- 8 June 2022 Activists try giant screen to clean up Guatemalan river
- 29 April 2022 Kia partners with The Ocean Cleanup for solutions to plastic pollution
- 23 February 2022 The Ocean Cleanup Now Offers More River Interceptors
- 16 February 2022 Ocean cleanup accused of staging removal after plastic looked too clean
- 2 February 2022 CNN Meio Dia – 2 de fevereiro de 2022 (at 2:42:10)
- 11 November 2021 Turn off the tap! The river robots that fight ocean plastic
- 11 November 2021 Boyan Slat, el don Quijote de La Mancha (oceánica)
- 2 November 2021 The Ocean Cleanup Begins Cleaning the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
- 29 October 2021 They pulled 63,000 pounds of trash from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, but that’s just the start
- 20 October 2021 Cleanup crews return to B.C. marking ‘major milestone’ in mission to rid oceans of trash
- 15 October 2021 Ocean Cleanup Extracts 20,000 Pounds Of Rubbish From Pacific Garbage Patch
- 15 October 2021 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 Maersk partnership announces promising results from HVO trial
- 9 September 2021 Ocean cleanup crew return to Victoria with 8 tonnes of plastic pollution
- 22 June 2021 PADI and The Ocean Cleanup Join Forces to Tackle Oceans Plastic
- 8 June 2021 Floating trash collectors are stopping garbage from reaching the ocean
- 2 June 2021 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 Thousands of rivers (not just 10) are causing most global plastic pollution, study finds
- 1 May 2021 Plastic pollution: ‘It’s not 10 rivers, it’s 1,000’
- 30 April 2021 Plastic Gets to the Oceans Through Over 1,000 rivers
- 25 October 2020 [The] Ocean Cleanup sunglasses debuts its first Sunglasses made from Plastic Waste
- 24 October 2020 Garbage has never looked as cool as these Pacific Garbage Patch sunglasses
- 24 October 2020 The Ocean Cleanup’s Boyan Slat shows off new shades made from ocean plastic
- 2 July 2020 Spanish Embassy candidate Wins 2020 FPdGi International Award
- 14 May 2020 How The Ocean Cleanup Plans To Work With Brands To Solve The Problem Of Plastic
- 30 April 2020 How to stop plastic getting into the ocean
- 29 January 2020 Quotidien deuxieme partie du 29 janvier 2020 avec Vincent Dedienne, Catherine Frot et Boyan Slat
- 21 January 2020 Why You Should Think Irrationally in 2020 Like These Brands Did
- 13 January 2020 This is how The Ocean Cleanup’s mission to clear the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is going
- 21 December 2019 No More Plastic: In Search of a Sustainable Future – Part 1: Clearing Plastic from the Ocean
- 15 December 2019 [The] Ocean Cleanup Finishes 1st Round Of Great Pacific Garbage Patch Project
- 13 December 2019 The Ocean Cleanup celebrates first haul of plastic from the Great Pacific garbage patch
- 2 November 2019 Meet Boyan Slat, Founder of The Ocean Cleanup Project
- 28 October 2019 Interceptor: solución para que los ríos no llenen los mares de plásticos
- 27 October 2019 Ocean Cleanup sagt Plastik in 1000 Flüssen den Kampf an
- 26 October 2019 The Ocean Cleanup project is now cleaning plastic out of rivers to stop it from getting to the ocean
- 26 October 2019 The Ocean Cleanup Unveils New Device
- 26 October 2019 Boyan Slat of The Ocean Cleanup talks up his latest invention, The Interceptor
- 3 October 2019 A floating device created to clean up plastic from the ocean is finally doing its job, organizers say
- 3 October 2019 Ocean cleanup device successfully collects plastic for first time
- 2 October 2019 Nieuwe plasticvanger werkt een stuk beter, zegt Ocean Cleanup
- 2 October 2019 Ocean Cleanup fischt jetzt Plastik aus dem Meer
- 2 October 2019 The Ocean Cleanup Is Capturing Plastic, Prepping A Larger Trash-Collecting System
- 2 October 2019 The Ocean Cleanup device is finally catching plastic
- 16 September 2019 Where does all the plastic go?
- 12 September 2019 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 Boyan Slat: Dutch engineer-turned-cleaner puts faith in humanity’s ‘better angels’
- 16 August 2019 The Ocean Cleanup Has Good News, Hopes To Resume Plastic Cleanup Soon
- 4 February 2019 A Grand Plan to Clean the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
- 11 January 2019 Founder Of Ocean Cleanup Vows Return, Says Failure Talk Is ‘Rubbish’
- 16 December 2018 60 minutes – Cleaning up the Plastic in the Ocean
- 14 October 2018 Boyan Slat’s Plastic Hunt – Documentary
- 18 September 2018 Marc Benioff Bets on Cleanup Tech for Ocean Trash
- 16 September 2018 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 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 The Ocean Cleanup launches its plastic collecting system
- 9 September 2018 It took 5 years, now the Ocean Cleanup system is heading to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
- 7 September 2018 The Ocean Cleanup vessel is on its way to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
- 7 September 2018 Giant plastic catcher heads for Pacific Ocean clean-up
- 28 August 2018 The Ocean Cleanup Is Starting, Aims To Cut Garbage Patch By 90% By 2040
- 16 June 2018 The Nonprofit Startup Taking on ‘The Great Pacific Garbage Patch’
- 13 June 2018 A young Dutch inventor wants to clean plastic from the ocean. Can he do it?
- 20 April 2018 The Revolutionary Giant Ocean Cleanup Machine Is About To Set Sail
- 18 April 2018 Plan To Clean Up Great Pacific Garbage Patch Nears Launch
- 22 March 2018 The ‘Great Pacific Garbage Patch’ Is Ballooning, 87,000 Tons of Plastic and Counting
- 22 March 2018 ‘Great Pacific garbage patch’ sprawling with far more debris than thought
- 7 December 2017 Dit is de Nederlander van het Jaar 2017
- 4 August 2017 ‘It’s important to at least try’: Can this 23-year-old clear the oceans of plastic waste?
- 28 June 2017 Floating a new idea for garbage collection
- 26 June 2017 A 22 year-old has a plan to clear the oceans of plastic
- 16 June 2017 We just dumped 11 million pounds of plastic in the ocean
- 15 June 2017 La mayor limpieza (del océano) de la historia
- 8 June 2017 Rivers found to feed plastic to oceans in new study
- 16 May 2017 Dutchman wants to deploy barriers to gather, recycle Pacific plastic
- 15 May 2017 How do you clean up the ocean’s biggest rubbish dump?
- 12 May 2017 Jovem de 22 anos apresenta plano para tirar plásticos do oceano
- 11 May 2017 Dutch group says it will soon start cleaning up ocean trash
- 11 May 2017 A 22-year-old is moving ahead with a controversial plan to trap plastic floating in the great Pacific garbage patch
- 11 May 2017 Boy Genius Boyan Slat’s Giant Ocean Cleanup Machine is Real
- 11 May 2017 Effort to clean up ocean plastic to begin in the next 12 months
- 22 April 2017 Why Peter Thiel believes in this 22-year-old’s dream to clean up the oceans
- 31 January 2017 European of the Year: Boyan Slat Wants to Clean Up the Oceans
- 4 October 2016 ‘Great Pacific Garbage Patch’ Far Bigger Than Imagined, Aerial Survey Shows
- 3 October 2016 The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Is Even Worse Than We Feared
- 3 October 2016 Researchers At Moffett Field Aim To Clean Great Pacfic Garbage Patch
- 18 August 2016 Meet The Guy Trying To Clean Up The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
- 14 August 2016 Can This Project Clean Up Millions Of Tons Of Ocean Plastic?
- 8 July 2016 21-year-old Boyan Slat Wants To Rid The World’s Oceans Of Plastic
- 5 July 2016 Ocean Trash Cleanup Test Underway
- 23 June 2016 Garbage In, Garbage Out: Marine Plastic
- 22 June 2016 Dutch Prototype Clean-up Boom Brings Pacific Plastics Solution a Step Closer
- 22 June 2016 Prototype Inzamelmachine Voor Plasticsoep De Noordzee In
- 14 June 2016 Océanos de plástico
- 14 June 2016 Passion-driven Innovation to Save Our Oceans
- 9 June 2016 Sea-cleaning dam stretches its arms
- 8 June 2016 21-Year-Old’s Miracle Ocean-Cleaning Tech Ready To Get Its Feet Wet
- 13 May 2016 Plastic-scooping Ocean Cleanup project wins prestigious Katerva Award
- 11 February 2016 The Largest Ocean Cleanup In History Will Begin By 2020, And A 21-year-old Is Leading The Way.
- 2 February 2016 Boyan Slat’s high school project raises millions to clean up world’s oceans
- 1 February 2016 Can the ‘largest cleanup in history’ save the ocean?
- 31 December 2015 Ocean Cleanup Array to be tested in the North Sea next year
- 13 November 2015 World’s largest ocean cleanup operation one step closer to launch
- 24 August 2015 Researchers sample enormous oceanic trash vortex ahead of clean-up proposal
- 24 August 2015 Mega Expedition returns from Great Pacific Garbage Patch
- 24 August 2015 Boyan Slat’s ‘Mega Expedition’ Shows ‘Our Oceans Are Riddled With Plastic’
- 29 May 2015 World’s first ocean system targeting plastic pollution to launch in 2016
- 8 April 2015 20 Year Old Claims He Can Rid the World’s Oceans of Plastic
- 26 March 2013 19-Year-Old Develops Ocean Cleanup Array That Could Remove 7,250,000 Tons Of Plastic From the World’s Oceans