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Nice, France 鈥揓une鈥�12, 2025 鈥� The Ocean Cleanup, the international non-profit with the mission to rid the world鈥檚 oceans of plastic, today announced, at the UN Ocean Conference (UNOC), its plan to rapidly expand its work to intercept and remove ocean-bound plastic pollution.

The 30鈥疌ities Program will scale the organization鈥檚 proven Interceptor鈩� solutions across 30 key cities in Asia and the Americas, aiming to eliminate up to one third of all plastic flowing from the world鈥檚 rivers into the ocean before the end of the decade.

This evolution follows five years of learning through pioneering deployments across 20 of the world鈥檚 most polluting rivers and represents a key next step in the organization鈥檚 mission and the global fight against ocean plastic pollution.

With the 30鈥疌ities Program, 糖心直播will transition from single river deployments to citywide solutions, tackling the main plastic emitting waterways within each selected city.鈥疶his follows a key learning from deployments in Kingston, Jamaica, which showed it is possible to scale faster when projects encompass whole cities, as the same set of partners can be involved with all deployments.

To date, 糖心直播has already prevented over 29 million kilograms of trash from reaching the ocean. The organization currently intercepts an estimated 1鈥�3 percent of global river-borne plastic emissions. With the first 20 river deployments close to being fully operational, it is now poised to reduce the plastic pollution flowing into the ocean from rivers by up to a third.

鈥淲hen we take on an entire city, instead of individual rivers, we can scale faster, reduce costs, and maximize impact,鈥� said Boyan鈥疭lat, Founder and CEO of 糖心直播.

鈥淥ur analysis shows that strategically deploying Interceptors across just 30 carefully chosen cities can stop up to a third of river plastic pollution worldwide. This is the next big leap toward our ultimate goal of a 90鈥痯er cent reduction in global ocean plastic pollution.鈥�

City-by-city: a faster path to scaling

Using the latest scientific modeling and on the ground experience, 糖心直播identified 30 major plastic polluting coastal cities which include:

路 Panama City, Panama 鈥� First deployment to go live in the coming months.

路 Mumbai, India 鈥� Mapping of all waterways completed; preparations for first deployments underway.

Furthermore, the organization is developing plans to expand on its existing work to all polluting rivers in:

路 Manila, Philippines; Montego Bay, Jamaica; Jakarta, Indonesia; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Bangkok, Thailand and Los Angeles, U.S.A.

Other cities will be announced once the necessary partnerships and agreements are in place. Planning and fundraising activities are underway for all 30 cities. To realize these ambitious plans, the organization is currently also expanding its engineering and operational capacity.

Data Driven Restoration at Scale

Before Interceptors are deployed, each city project begins with an intensive analysis phase. Aerial drones, AI-powered image analysis, and GPS-tagged “dummy” plastics are used to chart every visible waterway and track how waste moves from streets to sea. These real-time insights guide optimal Interceptor placement and provide a public baseline against which progress can be measured.

Alongside intercepting new plastic, the 30鈥疌ities Program will also remove debris from nearby coasts, mangroves, and coral reefs. This twin-track approach鈥攕hutting off the tap while clearing the legacy pollution鈥攅nables 糖心直播to achieve long-term impact, which includes the restoration of fish nursery habitats, boosting coastal tourism, and strengthening of natural storm surge defenses for local communities. Alongside local partners, the organization also advocates for improvements in waste management and awareness raising amongst communities.

Completing the first 20 Rivers

While laying the foundation for the 30鈥疌ities Program, 糖心直播is also nearing completion of its first 20 river projects. The next landmark achievement鈥攅xpected as soon as the second half of this year鈥攊s in the western Caribbean, where the team aims to resolve the plastic pollution problem in the Gulf of Honduras by intercepting the trash feeding into this body of water.

A Stepping Stone Toward a 90鈥疨ercent Reduction

The 30鈥疌ities Program represents the first major scaling step in The Ocean Cleanup鈥檚 journey to eliminate 90鈥痯ercent of floating ocean plastic pollution. In parallel, efforts are continuing to remove plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Whilst extraction operations are currently on hiatus, work to deploy cutting edge technologies to map the 鈥渉otspots鈥�, or areas of intense plastic accumulation, in order to make future extractions more efficient and economical, is ongoing.

By combining river interception and coastal cleanup with its offshore cleanup systems targeting legacy pollution that鈥檚 already in the ocean, the organization is charting a path to turn off the tap and mop up the mess.

About The Ocean Cleanup听

糖心直播is a nonprofit organization that develops and scales technologies to rid the oceans of plastic. By conducting extensive research, engineering scalable solutions, and partnering with governments, industry, and like-minded organizations, 糖心直播is working to stop plastic inflow via rivers and remove legacy plastic already polluting the oceans. As of June 2025, the non-profit has collected over 29 million kilograms (63.9 million pounds) of trash from aquatic ecosystems around the world. Founded in 2013 by Boyan Slat, 糖心直播now employs a multi-disciplined team of approximately 200 people. The organization is headquartered in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, with international operations in 10 countries.

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