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System 001 Offshore Campaign is Carbon Compensated through Partnership with South Pole

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The Plastic Journey: Ten Steps to Create a Product from Pollution

The Ocean Cleanup Valorizationteam checking plastic catch

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Introducing the Ocean Plastic Standard

July 01

We have now finalized the recycling step of the Plastic Journey from pollution to product.

Another important moment in the Plastic Journey: we have successfully finalized the recycling step. This is the first time that plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch has been recycled into plastic granulate. The next step is testing the material properties and ensuring the granulate is safe for use in a new product.

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June 25

The Interceptor 004 Series Part 1: Structure

The first episode in the Interceptor 004 series shows you how we secretly built our most visible Interceptor, soon to be deployed in the Dominican Republic.

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April 09

System 002 - Concept and Design

Taking the learnings from System 001/B, we have now started developing System 002 - which is intended to be our first fully operational cleanup system.

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March 10

Interceptor 004 landing in the Dominican Republic

"This is for everybody, for all the Dominicans."

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System 001 Offshore Campaign is Carbon Compensated through Partnership with South Pole

The main reason we’re developing ocean cleanup technology is to stop the destruction to hundreds of species worldwide caused by plastic pollution. Therefore, our number one design driver is to…

Recycling

The Plastic Journey: Ten Steps to Create a Product from Pollution

With our first catch from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, we aim to create beautiful, sustainable products. The proceeds of which will fund the continuation of the cleanup – thereby…

Recycling

Introducing the Ocean Plastic Standard

By adopting the newly established standard from DNV GL, the material in The Ocean Cleanup products can be verified as material removed from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. With this…

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The Ocean Cleanup is awarded $1 million to combat Jamaica’s highest polluting waterway

Furthering along our efforts to tackle the world’s 1000 most polluting rivers, the Benioff Ocean Initiative has awarded The Ocean Cleanup $1 million (USD) to deploy an Interceptor in Kingston…

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Great Pacific Garbage Patch Slowly Breaks Down Into Microplastics to Pollute the Deep Sea

In our mission to rid the world’s oceans of plastic we rely on a thorough understanding of the ocean plastic pollution problem. To this end, our researchers have found that…

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What happens to the extracted river waste?

Subsequent to the launch of the Interceptor at the end of 2019, we have received an overwhelmingly positive response from people who have contacted us and, naturally, people are curious…

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Interceptor 001 in Place After Extreme Flooding in Jakarta

Just as the New Year commenced, the city of Jakarta (Indonesia) experienced widespread flooding – some of the worst it has seen since 1996, and the highest record rainfall in…

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Mission One Completed – The Plans to Make Products from the Plastic Catch

Today we ended Mission One and presented our first plastic catch onshore, in Vancouver Canada. The plastic trash will be transformed into sustainable products that will be sold to help…

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Seven Questions from Boyan’s River AMA #AskBoyan

With the recent announcement of our river cleanup technology, the Interceptor, Boyan Slat, founder and CEO, took to Twitter to answer some of the internet’s questions about this newly revealed…

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The Ocean Cleanup Unveils Plan to Address the Main Source of Ocean Plastic Pollution: Rivers

The Ocean Cleanup aims to tackle the 1,000 most polluting rivers, responsible for about 80% of ocean plastic pollution, before the end of 2025. Today, we unveiled the invention to…

System 001 Offshore Campaign is Carbon Compensated through Partnership with South Pole

The Plastic Journey: Ten Steps to Create a Product from Pollution

Introducing the Ocean Plastic Standard

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System 001 Offshore Campaign is Carbon Compensated through Partnership with South Pole

The Plastic Journey: Ten Steps to Create a Product from Pollution

Introducing the Ocean Plastic Standard

The Ocean Cleanup is awarded $1 million to combat Jamaica’s highest polluting waterway

Great Pacific Garbage Patch Slowly Breaks Down Into Microplastics to Pollute the Deep Sea

What happens to the extracted river waste?

Interceptor 001 in Place After Extreme Flooding in Jakarta

Mission One Completed – The Plans to Make Products from the Plastic Catch

Seven Questions from Boyan’s River AMA #AskBoyan

The Ocean Cleanup Unveils Plan to Address the Main Source of Ocean Plastic Pollution: Rivers