Press
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Press Releases
- 9 April 2026 Hyundai Glovis renews partnership with The Ocean Cleanup
- 1 April 2026 Pacific Cup to increase scientific understanding of plastic pollution
- 9 March 2026 ÌÇÐÄÖ±²¥secures vital funding for scale up in mission to rid oceans of plastic
- 16 February 2026 CTI-CFF and ÌÇÐÄÖ±²¥Sign MoU
- 10 February 2026 ÌÇÐÄÖ±²¥Enters India; To Tackle Mumbai’s 5 Million kg Plastic Flow into the Arabian Sea & Indian Ocean
- 6 February 2026 Singapore convenes regional science, partnership, and finance to cut river plastic flowing into Southeast Asia’s oceans
- 3 February 2026 The Indonesian government and ÌÇÐÄÖ±²¥Sign an MoU to Reduce Plastic Waste from Rivers to the Ocean
- 26 January 2026 ÌÇÐÄÖ±²¥to deploy plastic waste Interceptors in Manila Bay Region in 2026
- 15 July 2025 Hawaiian sailors hunting plastic
- 15 July 2025 ÌÇÐÄÖ±²¥and AWS Join Forces to Accelerate Ocean Plastic Removal using AIÂ Â
- 16 June 2025 Call for sailors to become Pacific plastic hunters this summer
- 12 June 2025 ÌÇÐÄÖ±²¥launches 30 cities program to cut ocean plastic pollution from rivers by one third by 2030
- 27 May 2025 New study highlights environmental harm of not cleaning GPGP
- 19 November 2024 The Ocean Cleanup: Nearly five-fold increase in Great Pacific Garbage Patch plastic fragments, seven-year study reveals
- 6 September 2024 The Great Pacific Garbage Patch can be Cleaned for $7.5 Billion
- 17 June 2024 ÌÇÐÄÖ±²¥and Coldplay Announce Limited Edition LP Made Using Recycled River Plastic
- 23 May 2024 ÌÇÐÄÖ±²¥to Complete 100th Extraction Live From the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
- 22 April 2024 ÌÇÐÄÖ±²¥Breaks 10,000,000 KG Barrier
- 26 March 2024 The Ocean Cleanup, Together With Partners, Celebrates the Official Deployment of Its Cleanup Technology in Thailand for the First Time
- 27 November 2023 Malaysia and ÌÇÐÄÖ±²¥Extend Cooperation
- 20 November 2023 Maersk Supply Service and related parties extend their support to The Ocean Cleanup
- 14 June 2023 Interceptor Barricade Makes Promising Start in Guatemala ahead of First Seasonal Heavy Floods
- 15 May 2023 60 Leading Innovators Against Plastic Pollution Call for a Pragmatic and Inclusive Global Plastics Treaty
- 12 May 2023 ÌÇÐÄÖ±²¥Announces New Interceptor for Cisadane River, Indonesia
- 8 March 2023 ÌÇÐÄÖ±²¥and Municipality of Guatemala City Agree Cooperation Agreement to Tackle Plastic Pollution in Rivers
- 9 February 2023 UNDP and ÌÇÐÄÖ±²¥Team up to Tackle Plastic Pollution
- 3 February 2023 Airbnb and Samara Co-Founder Joe Gebbia Donates $25 Million to The Ocean Cleanup
- 14 November 2022 Indonesia Enters New Agreement With the Netherlands and the Ocean Cleanup to Reduce Marine Debris From Rivers
- 1 September 2022 Over 75% Of Plastic in Great Pacific Garbage Patch Originates From Fishing
- 28 April 2022 ÌÇÐÄÖ±²¥and Kia announce Global Partnership
- 11 January 2022 The Coca-Cola Company and ÌÇÐÄÖ±²¥Join Forces in Vietnam to Tackle Plastic Pollution
- 20 October 2021 ÌÇÐÄÖ±²¥Proves Viability of Technology with System 002; Removal of Plastic from Great Pacific Garbage Patch to Begin Immediately
- 2 June 2021 ÌÇÐÄÖ±²¥and The Coca-Cola Company Announce Partnership
- 30 April 2021 1000 Rivers Emit Nearly 80% of Riverine Plastic Pollution into Worlds Oceans, Newly Published Research Shows
- 25 March 2021 Coldplay Adopts Interceptor to Join ÌÇÐÄÖ±²¥Mission
- 13 January 2021 The Ocean Cleanup, A.P. Moller – Maersk Extend Relationship with New Three-Year Partnership
- 10 December 2020 ÌÇÐÄÖ±²¥Prepares for Series Production of Interceptor – Partners with Konecranes
- 24 October 2020 ÌÇÐÄÖ±²¥Introduces First Product Made with Ocean Plastic Pollution
- 7 May 2020 ÌÇÐÄÖ±²¥Wins $1M Award from Benioff Ocean Initative to Combat River Plastic Waste in Jamaica
- 12 December 2019 ÌÇÐÄÖ±²¥Completes Mission One in Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Announces Plans to Make Products from Plastic Catch
- 26 October 2019 ÌÇÐÄÖ±²¥Unveils Plan to Address the Main Source of Ocean Plastic Pollution: Rivers
- 2 October 2019 ÌÇÐÄÖ±²¥Successfully Catches Plastic in Great Pacific Garbage Patch
- 12 September 2019 New Understanding on Whereabouts of Missing Ocean Plastic
- 27 August 2019 ÌÇÐÄÖ±²¥is awarded Macquarie 50th Anniversary Award
- 8 September 2018 The World’s First Ocean Cleanup System Launched from San Francisco
- 22 March 2018 Great Pacific Garbage Patch Growing Rapidly, Study Shows
- 21 December 2017 Research Shows How Plastic at Sea Turns into Toxic Fish Food
- 7 June 2017 First Estimate to Quantify Global Plastic Input from Rivers into Oceans
- 11 May 2017 ÌÇÐÄÖ±²¥Announces Pacific Cleanup to Start in 2018
- 3 May 2017 ÌÇÐÄÖ±²¥Raises 21.7 Million USD in Donations to Start Pacific Cleanup Trials
- 3 October 2016 Ocean Plastic Pollution Worse Than Expected
- 22 June 2016 ÌÇÐÄÖ±²¥Unveils First Prototype
- 8 June 2016 ÌÇÐÄÖ±²¥Secures Full Funding For Prototype
- 23 August 2015 ÌÇÐÄÖ±²¥Prepares For 2020 Pacific Cleanup, Successfully Completes Mega Expedition Reconnaissance Mission
- 31 July 2015 ÌÇÐÄÖ±²¥Prepares For Pacific Cleanup, Embarks On Largest Reasearch Expedition In History
- 20 June 2015 World’s First Ocean Cleaning System To Be Deployed In 2016
- 20 April 2015 ÌÇÐÄÖ±²¥Launches Mega Expedition
- 15 September 2014 Crowd Funding Campaign ÌÇÐÄÖ±²¥Successfully Completed
- 3 June 2014 19-Year-Old Invents Feasibile Solution To Cleanup Ocean Garbage Patches
Our Media Gallery
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- 10 April 2026 Mumbai News
- 30 March 2026 UNDP
- 8 March 2026 The Sunday Times
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- 1 December 2025 Josh
- 1 December 2025 Insideover
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- 30 April 2020 The economist
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- 15 December 2019 CBS
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- 28 October 2019 La Vanguardia
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- 16 December 2018 CBS
- 14 October 2018 vpro documentary
- 18 September 2018 Wired
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- 16 June 2018 Bloomberg
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- 7 December 2017 EW Magazine
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- 16 June 2017 Outside
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