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How Plastic Can Be Used Responsibly

This is our first attempt at producing a product and we plan to improve with each line; but what we’ve been able to accomplish with these sunglasses I hope will…

6 November 2020 Boyan Slat
General, Recycling

Turning Trash into Treasure: The Ocean Cleanup Sunglasses

Today, we launched the first product made with plastic certified from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch: The Ocean Cleanup sunglasses. We also presented how we can go full circle in…

24 October 2020
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…

26 June 2020
The Ocean Cleanup Valorizationteam checking plastic catch
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…

28 May 2020
General, Recycling

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…

12 December 2019

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