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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…

18 September 2020
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…

31 July 2020 Lonneke Holierhoek
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…

26 June 2020
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…

28 May 2020
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…

7 May 2020
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
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