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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…

6 May 2020
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…

15 April 2020
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…

22 January 2020
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…

12 December 2019
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…

6 November 2019
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…

26 October 2019
Plastic captured in System 001/B
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…

2 October 2019
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…

12 September 2019 Laurent Lebreton
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…

3 September 2019
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…

16 August 2019 Boyan Slat
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