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)
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)

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) 2022 was about testing, learning, and improving operations with System 002. (2/4)

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) 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)

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)

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.