The Ocean Cleanup

The Ocean Cleanup's mission is to develop and scale solutions to rid the world's oceans of plastic.

Every year, millions of tons of plastic enter the oceans primarily from rivers. The plastic afloat across the oceans – legacy plastic – isn’t going away by itself. Therefore, solving ocean plastic pollution requires a combination of stemming the inflow and cleaning up what has already accumulated.

The Ocean Cleanup is developing cleanup systems to clean up what is already polluting our oceans and to intercept plastic on its way to the ocean via rivers. When we have achieved our goal of a 90% reduction in ocean plastic, our project will be finished, and our work will be done.

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NEWS from Los Angeles:
We will be expanding our operations.

Following the success of Interceptor 007, we’ve signed agreements with county and city leaders in Los Angeles to expand our operations to the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Rivers.

This project aims to prevent an estimated 410–628 tons of plastic from entering the Pacific Ocean through the LA rivers each year, with deployments expected ahead of the LA28 Olympic Games.

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Join us LIVE on Instagram for a visit on board Interceptor 007 with Boyan Slat.

Today, Tuesday, May 12th, at 11am PDT/ 8pm CEST. See you there?
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Do you know what these black objects are?

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Indonesia is home to our first river Interceptor, Interceptor 001 in Jakarta’s Cengkareng Drain, as well as Interceptor 020 in the nearby Cisadane River.

The lessons we learned from these deployments are shaping future in-country and global efforts.
Watch our unfiltered journey tackling plastic pollution in Jakarta:

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Sneak peek of our new YouTube video going live tomorrow. Anyone recognize this location? 👀

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Worth a watch: In-depth explainer video by YouTuber Matt Ferrell about our mission and operations

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How well do you know the oceans? Test your knowledge (and maybe learn something new) with our official ocean-quiz: visit.theoceancleanup.com/4sSJQsL

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A nice piece on why The Ocean Cleanup has paused ocean operations to upgrade the cleanup system and remove 90% of floating ocean plastic by 2040:

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If you want to learn more about our current projects, research and strategy, check out this recent interview with our Head of Research, Laurent Lebreton: https://youtu.be/YP-wM2Pm6xI?si=B8csJ...

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This is not AI.
These are two of our nine Interceptors stopping trash from entering the Caribbean Sea in Kingston, Jamaica:

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