Updates

Rivers

Funding Unlocked to Help Stop Third of All Plastic Flowing From Rivers

The Audacious Project, the funding initiative part of iconic TED, is supporting the 30 Cities Program to accelerate our scale up.

Global affairs

Asia’s Next Climate Deals Will Be Blue

How technology, data, and urban prevention infrastructure are turning ocean health into the next scalable climate investment theme in Asia

Team

Leadership roles aligned to scale-up

Leadership roles aligned to scale-up

Rivers

The Ocean Cleanup’s End-to-End River System

Our team has developed a comprehensive river cleanup model that can be adapted to fit every context and maximize impact.

Team

Maartje Bouvy Joins The Ocean Cleanup Supervisory Board 

The Ocean Cleanup welcomes Maartje Bouvy to the organization's Supervisory Board. Maartje's financial expertise as well as her interest in data and sustainability will help drive us forward towards our goals…

Rivers

How The Ocean Cleanup’s Smart River Survey is mapping solutions to river pollution

We need to ensure impactful deployments at scale. The Smart River Survey is critical to the scale up, and a framework to be replicable.

Oceans, Research

Behind the Scenes of the Pacific Data Expedition

Thanks to our research missions, we built a dataset spanning covering a significant proportion of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

General

Year in Review: The Ocean Cleanup Continues to Break Records

2025 in Review: How we are winning the fight against ocean plastic pollution

Rivers

Staying with the flow: changes to Interceptor solutions

The Ocean Cleanup spent over a decade studying rivers to tailor specific solutions to stop the flow of trash before it reaches the ocean.

Oceans, Research

Harnessing the Power of Highly Engaged Marine Users to Monitor Ocean Plastic Pollution

One of the greatest challenges facing ocean scientists today is meeting the immense data demands required to understand the global ocean. The ocean is vast, dynamic, and often difficult to…