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The Ocean Cleanup Aerial expedition: mission update

The Aerial Expedition is about to begin! In a few days, we will start conducting visual surveys, supplemented with state-of-art sensors to quantify the biggest and most harmful type of marine…

21 September 2016
Engineering, Testing

An update from the North Sea

During a recent inspection of the North Sea prototype, we noticed something unusual: the two outermost air chambers seemed to be bent out of shape - they did not follow…

31 August 2016 Boyan Slat
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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…

19 August 2016 Julia Reisser
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The Ocean Cleanup Unveils First Prototype

First sea trial of ocean cleanup system to be deployed this week

22 June 2016
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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…

17 June 2016
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’?

16 June 2016 Mark Paalvast
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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…

23 March 2016 Bruno Sainte-Rose
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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…

30 December 2015
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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…

15 December 2015 Boyan Slat
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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…

28 October 2015
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