The Ocean Cleanup

Dutch inventor Boyan Slat founded The Ocean Cleanup at the age of 18 in his hometown of Delft, the Netherlands. We are fully reliant on donations from individuals, corporations, governments and institutions. The Ocean Cleanup`s team consists of 120 engineers, researchers, scientists, computational modelers, and supporting roles, working daily to rid the world`s oceans of plastic. Every year, millions of tons of plastic enter the oceans, primarily from rivers. And the plastic that’s afloat within the oceans isn’t going away by itself. To effectively solve the problem, we need to both halt the trash flow from rivers, and remove legacy plastics from the oceans at the same time. The Ocean Cleanup, a non-profit organization, is developing and scaling technologies to rid the world’s oceans of plastic. Our aim is to put ourselves out of business once the oceans are clean.