Research Announcing the Aerial Expedition We are proud to announce The Ocean Cleanup’s next major research mission: the Aerial Expedition. In September and October 2016, we will conduct a series of low-speed, low-altitude flights across…
Engineering, Testing The Ocean Cleanup Unveils First Prototype First sea trial of ocean cleanup system to be deployed this week
Team Allard Van Hoeken Joins The Ocean Cleanup As COO The Ocean Cleanup is pleased to announce Allard van Hoeken has joined the organization as Chief Operating Officer, taking up the challenge of managing the development of The Ocean Cleanup’s…
Engineering, Research Engineering An Ocean Cleanup Barrier From Scratch How we design a system that does not ‘fight the ocean’, but rather ‘moves with it’?
Research A deep dive into plastic flow modeling One of the main issues we are tackling at The Ocean Cleanup is to determine where, and in what concentrations, plastic pollution is distributed throughout the oceans. In order to…
Engineering, Research, Testing First Cleanup Barrier Test to be deployed in Dutch waters The Ocean Cleanup will be deploying a 100 meter-long barrier segment in the second quarter of 2016 in the North Sea, 23 km off the coast of The Netherlands. It…
General Why We Need To Clean The Ocean’s Garbage Patches At The Ocean Cleanup, we’re developing the first feasible method to clean up world’s ocean garbage patches. Five vast areas of Open Ocean, known as the subtropical gyres, act as…
Engineering, Testing The Ocean Cleanup Array to undergo 3D testing at MARIN The Ocean Cleanup’s development of its cleanup technology has entered a new testing stage. Engineers are currently installing a scale model of the Ocean Cleanup Array in an offshore basin…
Engineering, Testing Deltares tests confirm workability of boom design In the past months, our engineering team has continued its work on developing the barriers designed to collect ocean plastics. To assess how the boom behaves in water, The Ocean…
Oceanography The Ocean Cleanup prepares for 2020 Pacific cleanup, successfully completes Mega Expedition reconnaissance mission The Ocean Cleanup successfully concluded the Mega Expedition with the arrival of a first group of vessels including the fleet’s 171ft mothership in the port of San Francisco today. Using a series…
