The Ocean Cleanup

The Ocean Cleanup removes first 100,000kg of plastic from Great Pacific Garbage Patch

By Peter Schulte / July 27, 2022

Since deployment in August 2021, System 002 (or “Jenny”) has now collected 101,353 kg of plastic over 45 extractions, sweeping an area of over 3000km2 – comparable to the size of Rhode Island.

Ocean Cleanup launches plan to clean up plastic in the world’s most polluted rivers

By Peter Schulte / December 11, 2020

The company is now preparing to scale up production of the Interceptor as it tries to reach its stated goal of cleaning up the world’s 1000 most polluting rivers.

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The Ocean Cleanup begins catching trash in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

By Peter Schulte / October 3, 2019

At age 19, Boyan Slat founded The Ocean Cleanup. The organization has developed a massive plastic-cleaning device which is now operating in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.