Coldplay will press its latest LP using recycled river plastic, intercepted by The Ocean Cleanup from Rio Las Vacas in Guatemala. The global band has confirmed that a limited Notebook Edition LP release of the band’s album Moon Music will be manufactured using reclaimed plastic. The mission of The Ocean Cleanup is to rid the […]
The Ocean Cleanup will be making its 100 plastic extraction from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) within the next few days. Extraction #100, expected to be either 28 or 29 May 2024, will be livestreamed. “This is an important milestone in a key year for The Ocean Cleanup,” says Boyan Slat, founder and CEO. […]
The Ocean Cleanup has deployed its first Interceptor river cleanup solution in the Chao Phraya River, Bangkok – part of a wider partnership to tackle plastic pollution leaking from one the world’s busiest working rivers. Ocean Cleanup is a non-profit that has spearheaded technology that can essentially sweep oceans and waterways, picking up strewn rubbish and extracting it […]
International non-profit project, Ocean Cleanup, has signed a new agreement with government departments to remove tonnes of plastic from the Cisadane River in Indonesia. The company is set to deploy its new Interceptor Original before the end of 2023. The agreement was signed by the Ministry of Public Works and Housing, the Government of Tangerang […]
The Ocean Cleanup – an international non-profit project developing and scaling technologies to rid the world’s oceans of plastic – has revealed its largest private donation to date. The $25m gift comes from Joe Gebbia, co-founder of Airbnb and Samara and chairman of Airbnb.org. The Ocean Cleanup says it will use these funds to continue […]
The Ocean Cleanup has now officially removed more than 100,000kg of plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP). Since deployment in August 2021, the project’s ocean-cleaning System 002 has now collected 101,353kg of plastic over 45 extractions, sweeping an area of ocean of over 3,000km2 – comparable to the size of Luxembourg or Rhode Island. Added to […]
Ocean Cleanup has begun work on intercepting plastic pollution in what it thinks is the heaviest polluting river in the world by making a fence which stops rubbish getting into the sea. For over three years the organisation has been working on developing a project in the Rio Motagua basin in Guatemala which, Ocean Cleanup […]
Environmental campaign the Ocean Cleanup has completed its trial of its sweeping ocean cleaning system and collected the most debris from the Pacific Ocean Garbage patch. The final trails were completed in early October, with large hauls of plastic waste being cleaned from the ocean. While on the mission, the organisation collected a lot of […]
The Ocean CleanUp has deployed its first large-scale, 800m system to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and had the most successful haul yet. After encountering some initial problems in the first two weeks, the team has completed its most successful trial campaign since this mission began. The clean-up system, known as System002 or […]
The Ocean Cleanup, PADI® and PADI AWARE Foundation™ have announced a global partnership to tackle ocean plastic pollution. The project pairs The Ocean Cleanup’s advanced technologies with the dive community’s passion to introduce ocean-friendly waste management policies around the world. As well as mobilising local divers in the ocean cleanup efforts, solutions to prevent plastic […]
The Ocean Cleanup will unveil its next iteration of its ocean cleanup technology: System 002, at IMarEST’s annual conference (28 June – 9 July). “In 2018, we launched our first cleanup system into the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP); after a structural failure we brought it back ashore, nearly four months after we left San […]