Research Understanding the rising speed of plastic The Ocean Cleanup Research Team continues to analyze data from our expeditions, including our Mega Expedition which provided us with the largest sample of ocean plastic ever collected (1.1 million particles weighing…
Engineering, Testing The Testing Continues Sticking to its planning, The Ocean Cleanup team is working hard on its long-term goal to initiate the full-scale cleanup of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch by 2020. To ensure…
Oceanography, Research Ocean Plastic Mostly Near Surface, Study Shows It is a commonly held belief that plastic pollution is spread from the ocean surface to seabed. Our newest study, published today in Nature Scientific Reports, shows that at least…
Oceanography, Research The Ocean Cleanup Aerial expedition: mission update The Aerial Expedition is about to begin! In a few days, we will start conducting visual surveys, supplemented with state-of-art sensors to quantify the biggest and most harmful type of marine…
Engineering, Testing An update from the North Sea During a recent inspection of the North Sea prototype, we noticed something unusual: the two outermost air chambers seemed to be bent out of shape - they did not follow…
Research Announcing the Aerial Expedition We are proud to announce The Ocean Cleanup’s next major research mission: the Aerial Expedition. In September and October 2016, we will conduct a series of low-speed, low-altitude flights across…
Engineering, Testing The Ocean Cleanup Unveils First Prototype First sea trial of ocean cleanup system to be deployed this week
Team Allard Van Hoeken Joins The Ocean Cleanup As COO The Ocean Cleanup is pleased to announce Allard van Hoeken has joined the organization as Chief Operating Officer, taking up the challenge of managing the development of The Ocean Cleanup’s…
Engineering, Research Engineering An Ocean Cleanup Barrier From Scratch How we design a system that does not ‘fight the ocean’, but rather ‘moves with it’?
Research A deep dive into plastic flow modeling One of the main issues we are tackling at The Ocean Cleanup is to determine where, and in what concentrations, plastic pollution is distributed throughout the oceans. In order to…
