Oceans, 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…
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…
Rivers 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, 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 in five years from rollout. Today, we unveiled the invention to…
Engineering, Oceans 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…
Research The Quest to Find the Missing Plastic For the last five years, researchers at The Ocean Cleanup have been working to understand the scope of ocean plastic pollution in order to help the organization effectively design technology…
Team The Ocean Cleanup Names Chris Worp Managing Director – Joins Management Team Following the swift growth of the organization and the expanded scope of responsibilities, we have decided to strengthen the Management Team. As from today, Chris Worp, who has been with…
Engineering, Oceans Into the Twilight Zone We have completed our test campaign with System 001/B . A consistent speed through the plastic has been achieved using the parachute anchor configuration, therefore, solving our main technical challenge…
