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Panama: implementing a city-wide approach to plastic pollution prevention

10 March 2025
Discussion, Team

2024: A record-breaking year for The Ocean Cleanup

19 December 2024
Our latest deployment in Jamaica: Interceptor 015 in Sandy Gully
Environment, Global affairs

Failure to agree on landmark treaty

2 December 2024 Monty Simus

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  1. April 29, 2025
    The Ocean Cleanup

    Three years ago today, Kia Worldwide x The Ocean Cleanup established a shared mission - to achieve a plastic-free ocean and a sustainable planet. Since then, Kia has supported us in extracting plastic from the ocean and transforming it into durable car accessories.

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  2. April 10, 2025
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    The hype about artificial intelligence (AI) knows no boundaries. At The Ocean Cleanup, we have no doubt that used responsibly, AI can be a phenomenal tool for accelerating and scaling our impact in oceans and rivers worldwide.

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  3. March 10, 2025
    The Ocean Cleanup Panama

    The Ocean Cleanup has partnered with Marea Verde Panama to launch the Siete Cuencas Project (the Seven Basin Project) to reduce the waste that flows into the Bay of Panama through the capital's rivers. When? An interceptor will be installed in the city’s Río Abajo in the coming months, and future deployments are planned for the near future.

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  4. April 01, 2025
    The Ocean Cleanup

    Interceptors catch results for the first quarter of 2025 are in, and it's looking promising. Fun fact: our catch in Q1 2025 is the same as our total river catch in 2019-2022

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Partnerships, Rivers

Panama: implementing a city-wide approach to plastic pollution prevention

The Ocean Cleanup has taken another important step in its mission to rid the world’s oceans of plastic with the announcement of a partnership project in Central America to stop…

10 March 2025
Discussion, Team

2024: A record-breaking year for The Ocean Cleanup

In 2024, The Ocean Cleanup made significant progress toward ridding the world’s oceans of plastic. From scaling up our work in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) to expanding river…

19 December 2024
Our latest deployment in Jamaica: Interceptor 015 in Sandy Gully
Environment, Global affairs

Failure to agree on landmark treaty

No agreement was reached in Busan to end plastic pollution, leading to continued ocean pollution. Urgent policies and partnerships are needed to address this crisis.

2 December 2024 Monty Simus
Environment, Global affairs

The Global Plastic Treaty can clean up the past and protect the future

Global leaders meet in South Korea to tackle plastic pollution with a new treaty. The Ocean Cleanup emphasizes the need to address legacy plastics to protect our environment and health.

22 November 2024 Monty Simus
Oceans, Research

Persistent legacy plastic fragments are rising disproportionally faster than larger floating objects in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Latest peer-reviewed publication reveals that legacy plastic fragments are rising disproportionally faster than larger floating objects in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

19 November 2024 Laurent Lebreton
Environment, Rivers

Kingston, Jamaica: our blueprint for a pragmatic approach to tackling plastic pollution and creating environmental and social impact

Together with partners, we have been able to create a novel solution that combines technology, data insights, and stakeholder involvement in order to successfully address plastic pollution and create environmental…

13 November 2024 Suleman Audu
Kia and The Ocean Cleanup brainstorming ideas
Partnerships, Recycling

Partnerships that make products that power clean oceans

Through the power of partnership and with the right imagination, plastic pollution can be reborn into items that bring joy, add value and deliver real purpose to products.

24 October 2024 Julian Searle
Oceans

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch can be Cleaned for $7.5 Billion

The Ocean Cleanup’s operations demonstrate that the elimination of the GPGP can be done at today’s level of performance in 10 years at a cost of $7.5bn

6 September 2024
Assembly of Interceptor 021 barriers in El Quetzalito, Guatemala
General, Rivers

Introducing Interceptor 021: Could this be the end of plastic pollution in an important part of the Western Caribbean?

The Ocean Cleanup is deploying an additional Interceptor in Guatemala’s Rio Motagua basin.

8 August 2024
Environment, Research

New research reveals no elevated densities of neuston within plastic hotspots inside the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Latest peer-reviewed publication reveals no elevated densities of neuston in areas targeted by The Ocean Cleanup’s clean up operations.

30 July 2024
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