Discussion, General Responding to critics I never intended to write this piece. The articles I am about to comment on are now over a year old, and when people asked me for a response on…
General The Dutch State to support The Ocean Cleanup’s high seas activities Today, we entered into an agreement with the Netherlands relating to the deployment of our cleanup systems on the high seas. The agreement deals with matters such as safety of…
Research Mission One Environmental Monitoring Results Available The Ocean Cleanup is developing advanced technologies to rid the world’s oceans of plastic. The passive drifting system, also known as System 001 or “Wilson”, was deployed in the Great…
Research Quantifying global plastic inputs from rivers into oceans Quantifying plastic pollution in the world’s ocean requires a good understanding of sources. It is commonly accepted that most plastic found in or near the marine environment is coming from…
Research Feasibility study published Watch The Ocean Cleanup Release Event which took place in New York City on June 3rd where the results of the feasibility study were presented.
Engineering System Design Upgrades Completed, to be Relaunched in June After the root cause analysis was finalized, the engineering team began working on solutions that we can start trialing in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in June. The upgraded design,…
General How to better clean the oceans – in 10 pictures If you missed our announcement on May 11th, here is a photo album summarizing the 10 key moments of Boyan’s presentation.
Testing System 001 Tow Test Explained We have successfully initiated our 120-meter tow test unit towards its designated test pattern approximately 50 nautical miles outside of San Francisco’s Golden Gate. This is an important test before…
Engineering, General System 001 Assembly: 120-meter Tow Test Unit Completed To meet our ambitious goals of deploying the first ocean cleanup system this summer, we are reminded of one of our basic design principles here at The Ocean Cleanup: doing…
General Pacific cleanup set to start in 2018 On May 11th during The Next Phase event, we finally unveiled what we have been covertly working on for the past two years; an improvement to our design that will…
