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The Ocean Cleanup
@TheOceanCleanup
The Largest Cleanup in History. Follow the latest updates on our mission to rid the world's oceans of plastic. #TheOceanCleanup
Jun 12 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
BREAKING: The Ocean Cleanup just announced the next big step in scaling Interceptor deployments worldwide: a 30-city program to cut ocean plastic pollution from rivers by up to one-third by 2030. Image This follows a key learning from Interceptor deployments in Kingston, Jamaica, which showed that a city-wide approach scales faster by using the same partners across all deployments. Image
Nov 19, 2024 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
BREAKING: our latest research shows that the amount of plastic fragments (in mass) in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch has increased almost 5x in just seven years. (1/5)Image
Image How? Larger plastic debris breaks down directly in the GPGP, while legacy pollution in the world’s rivers and coastlines fragments and travels to the GPGP. (2/5) Image
Mar 12, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
System 03 is deployed in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch again, for the first time in 2024, as we go into our most ambitious year yet. (1/4) Image 2022 was about testing, learning, and improving operations with System 002. (2/4)
Sep 1, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
BREAKING: Our study, published today in @SciReports, reveals that 75% — 86% (by weight) of plastic debris in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) comes from fishing activities at sea. (1/6) System 002 catch on deck.Catch from System 002 from ... We know from our 2018 research that 46% of plastic in the GPGP is made up of fishing nets, with the rest hard plastic objects and fragments. However, our latest study shows the hard plastics too (not only the nets) come from fishing activities in the Pacific. (2/6) Composition of hard plastic...
May 28, 2020 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
When creating a beautiful, sustainable product from the plastic caught in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, we want our supporters to be able to trust that the product they receive is really made of plastic from the ocean. (1/7) Problem: the market is saturated with “ocean plastic" products, where the unclear definition of what this entails leads to little traceability and ocean plastic products that have little to do with plastic taken out of the ocean. (2/7)
May 6, 2020 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Today, we published a new study on the fallout of plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. During an offshore campaign in the summer of 2019, our scientists collected over 12,000 fragments from the water column below the patch and analyzed them to study the vertical extent of plastic pollution in the area.