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Become a Citizen Scientist and Help Tackle Plastic Pollution

Starting today, you can join forces with us and help us gain greater insights into the plastic pollution problem in our oceans and rivers by using The Ocean Cleanup plastic…

General, Rivers

Interceptor Series Production to Start

To rapidly address the urgent problem of plastic pollution, we must deploy Interceptors on a large scale, but we cannot do this by ourselves. Today, we announced that we are…

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…

Team

Announcement: Changes in Supervisory Board

The Supervisory Board has 2 new members: Jaska de Bakker and Bert Bruggeman. We also thank Evert Greup for his five years of valuable service to our mission as he…

Oceans, Research, Rivers

Predicting the Future of Plastic Pollution and Why Cleanup is Part of the Solution

Plastic pollution continues to have a global impact on our ecosystems, health, and economies. Because of the scale of the issue, there is still much to learn about the impacts of plastic pollution. Therefore, research is crucial when developing solutions. To that end, we must…

Environment, Oceans

System 001 Offshore Campaign is Carbon Compensated through Partnership with South Pole

The main reason we’re developing ocean cleanup technology is to stop the destruction to hundreds of species worldwide caused by plastic pollution. Therefore, our number one design driver is to…

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…

General, Rivers

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…