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…
General European Commission Appoints Boyan Slat as Board Member of Horizon Europe’s Healthy Ocean Mission Boyan Slat, CEO of The Ocean Cleanup, has been appointed as one of the board members of the ocean mission in the European Commission’s Horizon Europe program. The mission of…
Oceans System 001/B – The Mission Plan In our last update, we shared the modifications to our system design and how we plan to test them in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch this summer. Now, only one month…
Environment, Research Mission One Environmental Monitoring Results Available The Ocean Cleanup is developing advanced technologies to rid the world’s oceans of plastic. The passive drifting system, also known as System 001 or “Wilson”, was deployed in the Great…
Engineering, Oceans System Design Upgrades Completed, to be Relaunched in June After the root cause analysis was finalized, the engineering team began working on solutions that we can start trialing in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in June. The upgraded design,…
