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Your creativity can help us clean the ocean 📣
  
We are launching a new way for you to get involved in the mission and help us spread awareness - a t-shirt design competition. This is a chance to have your design featured in The Ocean Cleanup store for everyone to wear!

 
You can find the competition's guidelines and submit your design here:  https://theoceancleanupstore.com/design-competition/ 
 
Deadline: 22 May 2025 at  21:59  CET. 

Another trash tsunami intercepted in Rio Las Vacas, Guatemala. 🇬🇹 

Interceptor 006 consists of two barriers: a blue one upstream and a yellow one downstream; here are before/after photos of a recent trash extraction: 

Interceptor catch results for the first quarter of 2025 are in, and it's looking promising. 🚀

Fun fact: our catch in Q1 2025 is the same as our total river catch in 2019-2022.

Big shoutout to everyone who supports our mission by sharing our updates, making a donation, or partnering with The Ocean Cleanup.

Want to help clean the oceans? See how:  https://theoceancleanup.com/help-clean/ . 

This week we announced our new river project in Panama 🇵🇦
The Siete Cuencas Project (the Seven Basin Project) together with our local partner Marea Verde. The plan is to deploy Interceptors across all of Panama City’s rivers, with the goal of restoring Panama Bay to its pristine, original state. More about this project: 

Together with Kia, we continue to demonstrate that giving the ocean plastic we extract a new life is possible. Learn more about our global partnership and how we created worth from waste:  https://theoceancleanup.com/moving-forward-together/ 

Yesterday, we announced what it will concretely take to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch: 

Impact update: we have passed a total of 15,000,000 kg of trash removed from oceans and rivers worldwide. More river deployments coming soon. 

Another strong performance from Interceptor 007, capturing plastic to keep it out of the Pacific Ocean and away from the coastlines of LA County during last weekend’s storms in California.Our operators are currently offloading and confirming the total amount caught - stay tuned for updates. 

Interceptor 007 is up and running in Ballona Creek, LA County, USA.
Facing the first major rain event of its deployment, Interceptor 007 successfully extracted plastic and other debris to full capacity - all waste that would otherwise be heading for the Pacific Ocean right now.

We'll continue to optimize Interceptor 007 during its pilot project over the next two storm seasons. The first steps deal with minor leakage and catch management issues to increase efficiency and keep even more plastic out of the Pacific. 

If you are in Los Angeles County on Thursday morning, join us as we watch Interceptor 007 travel along the California coastline to its deployment location in Ballona Creek, or join us live online at 6:00 am PT / 9:00 am ET / 3:00 pm CET on our YouTube channel.