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System 002
Proof of technology reached in October, 2021Images (19)
Proof of Technology Announcement (10)
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October 20: Boyan Slat, CEO and Founder sharing a few words about the test campaign of System 002, how we got here and what the next steps are. System 002 has lead us to proof of technology, and after this short celebration, it will go back out to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch to capture more plastic. -
October 20: Boyan Slat, CEO and Founder sharing a few words about the test campaign of System 002, how we got here and what the next steps are. System 002 has lead us to proof of technology, and after this short celebration, it will go back out to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch to capture more plastic. -
October 20: Some of the plastic caught during the System 002 test campaign (July - October) on board one of the Maersk support vessels. -
October 20: Boyan Slat watching the offshore crew return to shore with System 002 and the plastic harvested. A marine parade was held in celebration of the successful test campaign of System 002. -
October 20: Boyan Slat, CEO and Founder sharing a few words about the test campaign of System 002, how we got here and what the next steps are. System 002 has lead us to proof of technology, and after this short celebration, it will go back out to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch to capture more plastic.
Video footage (9)
Interceptors in Operation
Images (14)
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Interceptor 004 in the Rio Ozama, Dominican Republic, summer 2020 -
Interceptor 004 in the Rio Ozama, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, August 2020 -
Interceptor 004 in the Rio Ozama, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, August 2020 -
Interceptor 005 deployed in Klang river, Malaysia. -
Interceptor 003 deployed in Can Tho river, Vietnam
Video footage (6)
Recycling the ocean plastic
From trash to treasure (2019-2020)Images (19)
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Plastic catch sealed off in containers. This is some of our first plastic catch, caught by System 001/B in 2019. The plastic in the end product - the sunglasses - is certified from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, following a chain of custody protocol by DNV. -
Boyan Slat standing with first plastic catch onshore at end of the System 001/B testing. The press conference was in Vancouver, Canada, in December 2019. -
DNV Auditor inspecting the pre-sorting of our first plastic catch in February, 2020. The plastic in the end product - the sunglasses - was certified from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, following a chain of custody protocol by DNV. -
Ghost nets being processed for recycling into granulate. -
Granulate created from the catch from System 001/B.
Video footage (7)
Boyan Slat
Founder and CEOImages (25)
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Mark Rober (Content creator and co-initiator behind #TeamSeas) and Boyan Slat (Founder & CEO of The Ocean Cleanup) on Interceptor 004 in the Dominican Republic, September 2021. -
Mark Rober (Content creator and co-initiator behind #TeamSeas) and Boyan Slat (Founder & CEO of The Ocean Cleanup) by the Interceptor 004 in the Dominican Republic, September 2021. -
Boyan Slat unveiling the Interceptor, October 26th, 2019 -
Boyan Slat, Founder & CEO, standing in front of The Ocean Cleanup's 1000 rivers pollution map -
Boyan Slat at the Interceptor in Klang river, Malaysia
Plastic Pollution
Images (22)
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Trail of plastic floating in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch -
Motagua River, Guatemala, plastic pollution -
Plastic pollution washed up on a beach in Dominican Republic -
Motagua River, Guatemala, plastic pollution -
A young monk seal on Laysan Island holds a plastic fragment in his mouth. Photo credits: Matthew Chauvin
Illustrations (22)
Video footage (2)
Plastic Research
Images (18)
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Manta trawl (starboard) and underwater trawl (stern - cable from blue A-frame) during deep sea research mission 2018. The aim of the mission was to see if the plastic afloat in ocean garbage patches can pollute the deep sea below. -
CTD (Conductivity, Temperature, Density) profiler during deep sea research, 2018. The aim of the mission was to see if plastic floating in ocean garbage patches can pollute the deep sea below -
Counting and categorizing the sampled microplastic during the deep sea expedition 2018. The aim of the mission was to see if the plastic afloat in ocean garbage patches can pollute the deep sea below. -
River plastic research in Malaysia, conducted by The Ocean Cleanup crew and local research partners. -
River plastic research in Guatemala
Illustrations (8)
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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP), as mapped by The Ocean Cleanup in 2015-2016. -
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch in Numbers - Infographic -
Composition of the inner GPGP. Currently, about 5-10% of its mass is microplastics. -
The journey of floating ocean plastic from rivers to garbage patches -
Future scenarios for macroplastics in the GPGP. The dark band shows what would happen without any change. Addressing the source (left) causes the amount of ocean pollution to stay constant. Combining source reduction with cleanup (right) causes the amount of ocean pollution to decline.
Video footage (8)
The Interceptorâ„¢ Unveiling
October 26, 2021, Rotterdam, The NetherlandsImages (12)
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Rotterdam, October 26, 2019 - The Ocean Cleanup unveils the Interceptor, the first scalable river cleanup technology. -
Rotterdam, October 26, 2019 - The Ocean Cleanup unveils the Interceptor, the first scalable river cleanup technology. -
Rotterdam, October 26, 2019 - The Ocean Cleanup unveils the Interceptor, the first scalable river cleanup technology. -
Rotterdam, October 26, 2019 - The Ocean Cleanup unveils the Interceptor, the first scalable river cleanup technology. -
Rotterdam, October 26, 2019 - The Ocean Cleanup unveils the Interceptor, the first scalable river cleanup technology.