What's behind deploying our Interceptors in the world's most polluting rivers?

UPDATE: first deployments to stop ocean plastic pollution in India scheduled for this year.

We are stopping ocean plastic pollution coming from rivers in these countries.

This smart data-driven tool solves plastic pollution in cities.

What happens before we deploy our Interceptors?

Plastic pollution, oceans and civilisation | Rowan Byrne | TEDxUniversityofManchester

Stopping plastic pollution in Kingston, Jamaica

Coming soon: new deployments to stop trash flowing from most polluting rivers to the ocean

You can help us reach our goal of clean oceans

Interview with Chris Jordan ALBATROSS Halsey Institute at the

Solving plastic pollution in Panama City

Improving our ocean operations and scaling up our river Interceptors

Stopping trash from reaching the Panama Bay 🇵🇦

Is the plastic pollution problem unsolvable? We don't think so.

Is there hope for a cleaner river and ocean? 📍Cisadane River 🇮🇩

Analyzing our plastic catch from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

40,000,000 kg of trash are no longer polluting our rivers and oceans.

So far, so good.

30 Fridges in the latest Interceptor catch in Jamaica

Interceptors collect trash AND data for upstream change

Switch the sound on if you dare.

What we did in October to solve ocean plastic pollution

How we are tackling plastic pollution in Panama City

How to remove 2,300 bottles from the environment for $10

All we did in November for cleaner oceans

How unscheduled learning opportunities drive progress

Boyan Slat founded The Ocean Cleanup in 2013 with a mission: to rid the world's oceans of plastic.

Tackling plastic pollution in the Cisadane River, Indonesia

We designed our Interceptors to stop plastic pollution flowing from rivers into the ocean.

We find a lot of plastic bottles among our river catch… but also this

This is how we are working to solve ocean plastic pollution.

How we are tackling plastic pollution in Panama City

Working towards cleaner oceans

Preventing trash from reaching the ocean and cleaning it up is not impossible.

World Cleanup Day 2025

This is the biggest catch to date for Interceptor 015 🇯🇲

From the interesting finds series:

“What do we do with the trash?” answered in 3 steps:

Here's how we rid the world's oceans of plastic

Two back-to-back trash tsunamis intercepted in Guatemala #short

Our work to end plastic pollution in the Gulf of Honduras #shorts

We are improving our ocean operations.

Ocean operations update: improving our cleanup system

What happened at The Ocean Cleanup in July #shorts

This is how we are ridding the world's oceans of plastic - modeling vs reality.

Final steps underway to stop plastic pollution in Mumbai 🇮🇳

Our Interceptors' impact in Kingston, Jamaica

New milestone: 10,000 extractions of river waste

If all goes well, the Gulf of Honduras could stay clean for the first time in decades

Intercepting trash in Guatemala

The moment we knew cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch was possible

Reversing an environmental disaster

This is not AI. All this plastic pollution would end up in the Gulf of Honduras, if not intercepted.

Extraction after one of the latest trash tsunamis intercepted in Guatemala.

All we did in August to get one step closer to clean oceans 🌊

The end is in sight: stopping plastic pollution in the Gulf of Honduras

From failure to success: stopping plastic pollution in Guatemala

Yes, humans are winning the fight against ocean plastic pollution

2025 wrapped: The Ocean Cleanup edition

Our goal: clean oceans

From vision to reality: cleanup operations #shorts

LATEST from Interceptor 007 in Los Angeles, 🇺🇸

More plastic than fish in ocean by 2050? | Ellen MacArthur Foundation x Breaking the Plastic Wave

Ocean Plastic - everybody's responsible | Pete Ceglinski | TEDxAuckland

How does plastic get in the ocean?

3BL Forum Brands Taking Stands - LIVE! | June 2, 2021

Plastics Have Been Found In The Mariana Trench

Baby Sea Turtles Are Dying Because Of Microplastics

Demand Action on Plastic Pollution by Fossil Fuel Companies

A luxury boutique bringing you fish infused with fashionable microplastic fibres from the hottest

What's the World's Most Littered Plastic Item? Cigarette Butts | National Geographic

Tracking Plastic Sea to Source | Explorers Fest

Deplastifying The Arctic's Pristine Waters

The Solution to Plastic Pollution? by Max Wilbert

To stop plastic pollution we need a circular economy for plastic

Podcast: Holistic Nature of us: Meet Nate Liebenberg

Simon Bernard: "Around the World Powered by Plastic Waste" | Talks at Google

Peter Kohler & Stefan Leutenegger: "The Plastic Tide: Vision from the Skies" | Talks at Google

Ep1: A plastic world | FROZEN ISLANDS, ARCTIC SEAS | #WWFVoices

Don't Let Big Plastic Trash our Oceans

Platic Consumption with Sir David Attenborough

A Plastic Ocean Official Trailer

Tackling plastic waste in the Pacific with Kosi Latu

Doing Our Part to Curb Plastic Waste in Pakistan

The economic injustice of plastic by Van Jones

Tough truths about plastic pollution - Dianna Cohen at TED

Can you solve this challenge with us? We need YOUR ideas to get supermarkets to stop using so muc

How the oceans can clean themselves: Boyan Slat at TEDxDelft

Interface | Creating A Restorative Loop with the Net-Works™ Programme

The Plastic Bank with Founder David Katz

The Seas of Plastic by Captain Charles Moore

Plastic Oceans by ABC Catalyst Australia

What is a Gyre?

PLASTICIZED by 5 Gyres Institute

First-hand Experience with Plastic in Our Oceans by Roz Savage

About the PlasticOceans Film Project by Howard Lack

Plastic Oceans Awareness by Howard Lack

Shocking and Very Sad by Doug Allan

Stop Buying Disposal Plastics by Tanya Streeter

American Chemistry Council Viewpoint by Steve Russell

Tapped: Stephanie Seochtig

Plastic in our Oceans

With Knowing Comes Caring by Sylvia Earle

The Story of Bottled Water, released on March 22, 2010 in just over five minutes, the film explor

There are some scary creatures in the ocean... none more scary than plastic.

Bag It (trailer)

Plastic Seduction by Katrin Peters