Updates

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…

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…

General

The Ocean Cleanup is awarded $1 million to combat Jamaica’s highest polluting waterway

Furthering along our efforts to tackle the world’s 1000 most polluting rivers, the Benioff Ocean Initiative has awarded The Ocean Cleanup $1 million (USD) to deploy an Interceptor in Kingston…

Research

Great Pacific Garbage Patch Slowly Breaks Down Into Microplastics to Pollute the Deep Sea

In our mission to rid the world’s oceans of plastic we rely on a thorough understanding of the ocean plastic pollution problem. To this end, our researchers have found that…

General, Rivers

What happens to the extracted river waste?

Subsequent to the launch of the Interceptor at the end of 2019, we have received an overwhelmingly positive response from people who have contacted us and, naturally, people are curious…

Engineering, General

Interceptor 001 in Place After Extreme Flooding in Jakarta

Just as the New Year commenced, the city of Jakarta (Indonesia) experienced widespread flooding – some of the worst it has seen since 1996, and the highest record rainfall in…

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…

General

Seven Questions from Boyan’s River AMA #AskBoyan

With the recent announcement of our river cleanup technology, the Interceptor, Boyan Slat, founder and CEO, took to Twitter to answer some of the internet’s questions about this newly revealed…

Engineering, General, Rivers

The Ocean Cleanup Unveils Plan to Address the Main Source of Ocean Plastic Pollution: Rivers

The Ocean Cleanup aims to tackle the 1,000 most polluting rivers, responsible for about 80% of ocean plastic pollution, before the end of 2025. Today, we unveiled the invention to…

Engineering, General

The Ocean Cleanup Successfully Catches Plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Today, we announced that System 001/B is successfully capturing and collecting plastic debris. After one year of testing, we have succeeded in developing a self-contained system in the Great Pacific…