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Mumbai Calling: The Ocean Cleanup and Bharat Clean Rivers Foundation Join Forces in India

The Ocean Cleanup has agreed its first partnership in India, teaming up with Bharat Clean Rivers Foundation to collaborate on their campaign to tackle plastic pollution in the nation’s rivers…

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Kingston, Jamaica: The first Interceptor city

The Ocean Cleanup has now deployed seven Interceptors in the Jamaican capital, completing the first phase of our joint project to eliminate plastic pollution in Kingston Harbour. 2024 will see…

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The Ocean Cleanup And Coldplay Renew Partnership With Interceptor 020 In Jakarta, Indonesia

The Ocean Cleanup and Coldplay are delighted to announce a renewal of our partnership as part of The Ocean Cleanup’s mission to rid the oceans of plastic.  

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Introducing the Interceptor Barricade: The Ocean Cleanup returns to Guatemala

After our first trials last year, we’ve returned to Guatemala with Interceptor 006 - the latest addition to our portfolio of Interceptor solutions, which we call the Interceptor Barricade -…

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Interceptor 020: Cisadane Deployment Begins Expansion In Indonesia

Interceptor 020, The Ocean Cleanup’s second deployment in Indonesia, aims to stop up to 1000 tons of trash flowing down the Cisadane into the Java Sea every year.

Panorama, aerial view Bangkok river curved with sunset background

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A Tale of 3 Rivers: Intercontinental River Research Collaboration

The Ocean Cleanup has partnered with leading universities across three continents to study plastic pollution in three urban rivers over three years in the Dominican Republic, South Africa and Thailand.

UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner and The Ocean Cleanup founder & CEO Boyan Slat sign the Memorandum of Understanding at UN Headquarters in New York.

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The Ocean Cleanup and the United Nations: Partnering with UNDP

The Ocean Cleanup and the United Nations Development Programme have joined forces to eliminate plastic pollution around the globe.

Interceptor 006 in Las Vacas river, Guatemala, after the flash flood. The Interceptor Trashfence suffered some damage and most of the plastic escaped during the flood.

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The Ocean Cleanup Trials New Interceptor in World’s Most Polluting River

The Ocean Cleanup has begun work on intercepting plastic pollution in what we predict to be the heaviest polluting river in the world.

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Expanding the Interceptor Family

If we had approached each river with a dedicated technical solution, our scale-up would take way too much time. Therefore, we designed the Interceptor like a product; suitable for many…

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The Ocean Cleanup and Ocean Conservancy team up with MrBeast and Mark Rober in #TeamSeas fundraising campaign

Today, YouTubers Mark Rober and MrBeast announced their latest fundraising campaign, #TeamSeas to enact a movement of this proportion. #TeamSeas aims to motivate global social media creators and fans to…