Over 10,000,000 kg (22 million lbs) of trash removed from oceans and rivers so far.

'While we still have a long way to go, our recent successes fill us with renewed confidence that the oceans can be cleaned.': theoceancleanup.com/press/press-re….

BREAKING: We just made our largest ever plastic catch. Interceptor 006 in the Rio Las Vacas, Guatemala, stopped 272 truckloads of trash - equal to 1.4 million kg (3.1 million lbs) - from flowing into the Caribbean Sea. All in a single evening.

What’s happening in Guatemala right now is unbelievable. The amount of plastic we captured… we’ve never seen anything like this before.

We’ve been scooping day and night for over a week and we’re still not done extracting it all.

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It's bluebonnets and ...

Over 9000 kg removed from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in our 93rd plastic extraction:

Our prototype Interceptor 001 in the Cengkareng Drain in Jakarta, Indonesia, has been operational for 5 years today, with a total catch of over 370,000 kg of trash.🇮🇩

Thanks to our local operators onboard daily to maintain, operate & offload the Interceptor. And for the photos.

Interceptor 019 is our first deployment in Thailand, but it’s just the first step in our attempt to stop thousands of tons of trash from flowing into the Gulf of Thailand each year.

Learn more about our approach to tackling this problem: theoceancleanup.com/updates/bangko…

You’re not responsible for how someone chooses to interpret what you say. All you’re responsible for is clear, honest, and compassionate delivery.

Interceptor 013's first catch of the year in Kingston, Jamaica.🇯🇲

Fact: 8 fridges were among this catch.

3,875,000 kg of trash intercepted in the Rio Motagua, Guatemala, to date. In 2024, we’ll be expanding our work there. Stay tuned for updates later this year. 🇬🇹

“Western Civilisation is a cut flower, and cut flowers die.' But we have each inherited 'seed packets'. 'All we have to do...is seed them, grow them, nurture them, water them, and when they’re attacked, fight for them.”

- Ayaan Hirsi Ali at #ARC2023

What seeds will you plant in 2024?

NEW YEAR, NEW VISION

This 2024, be part of telling a better story for our societies, one built on our foundational freedoms and overlaid with a 'code of kindness, truth, gentleness, respect, and goodness'.

Learn more about ARC's hope-filled vision: youtube.com/@arc_conference

Another milestone reached by Interceptor 002 in River Klang, Malaysia. 🇲🇾

Here's my WinWin interview with Ocean Cleanup founder Boyan Slat here on X in full!

We discuss plastic pollution, good vs bad activism, good vs bad regulation (ahem plastic straw ban), incentive structures, mindsets for solving really hard problems...

Chapters
0:00 - Intro &

'We have the capacity...to make the very desert bloom.'

Dr Jordan B Peterson challenging each of us to use what we have to create a future of abundance and opportunity for everyone.

Humanity's capacity for innovation and ingenuity is unlimited #BetterStory

We have removed over 8,000,000 kg (17.8m lb) of trash from the oceans and rivers worldwide. As a non-profit organization, it’s your donations, big and small, that make this happen. Thank YOU.

You can help clean our oceans, too, by donating here: theoceancleanup.com/donate.

Ocean warriors assemble

We spend billions on the environment yet can't clean up our oceans.

Boyan Slat & The Ocean Cleanup are singlehandedly solving this problem w/ an innovation mindset.

I'll take a few tenacious builders over an army of bureaucrats & lawyers any day.

Ep 69: blog.joelonsdale.com/p/ep-69-how-a-…

You asked for it - here it is. For the first time in history, tomorrow we will attempt to livestream a plastic extraction directly from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch - over 2400 km (1500 miles) from civilization. More details to follow.

Colder months bring more challenging conditions offshore, but System 03 keeps cleaning the Great Pacific Garbage Patch - this time, the crew removed another 11,874 kg of trash from the ocean.

Would you like to see this live?