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Kia and The Ocean Cleanup brainstorming ideas

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.

The Ocean Cleanup sunglasses: our first ever product made using plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

General, Recycling

Sunglasses Out of Stock

We've reached our funding goal with our first ocean plastic product. All of the proceeds go towards our cleanup operations in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Recycling

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…

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…

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…

The Ocean Cleanup Valorizationteam checking plastic catch

Oceans, Recycling

Introducing the Ocean Plastic Standard

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

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…