General Cleanup Commences: System 001 Has Arrived On October 3rd, System 001 embarked on its final leg of the journey to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. We are happy to announce that it has reached its intended…
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…
General, Testing Pacific Trials Results: System 001 is Go What we are doing is unprecedented. There has never been a cleanup system of this magnitude deployed in the ocean. Therefore, continual testing is integral to our design process. We…
Research Remote Sensing of Ocean Plastics Today, our results on the analysis of hyperspectral imagery collected during our 2016 Aerial Expedition above the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) were published in the scientific journal Environmental Science…
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…
General, Testing Pacific Trials – The Gateway to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch Following the successful launch from the San Francisco Bay, System 001 traveled 350 nautical miles to commence the Pacific Trials. The trials will last approximately two weeks and are a…
General Crowd funding campaign successfully completed With the support of over 38,000 funders from 160 countries, in 100 days over US$ 2 million has been raised.
Engineering, Testing Deltares tests confirm workability of boom design In the past months, our engineering team has continued its work on developing the barriers designed to collect ocean plastics. To assess how the boom behaves in water, The Ocean…
General System 001 has launched into the Pacific After 5 years of research, engineering and testing, we launched the world’s first ocean cleanup system from San Francisco Bay, marking the start of the cleanup. The system is now…
Team Lonneke Holierhoek joins The Ocean Cleanup as COO The Ocean Cleanup is pleased to announce Lonneke Holierhoek has joined the organization as Chief Operations Officer, taking on the challenge of managing the development of The Ocean Cleanup’s technology…
