The Ocean Cleanup
Dutch nonprofit that alleviates plastic pollutionThe Ocean Cleanup is a nonprofit environmental engineering organization based in the Netherlands that develops technology to extract plastic pollution from the oceans and to capture it in rivers before it can reach the ocean. Their initial focus was on the Pacific Ocean and its garbage patch, and extended to rivers in countries including Indonesia, Guatemala, and the United States.
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AI Generated- 2012Slat proposed the cleanup project and supporting system.
- 2013The Ocean Cleanup was founded by Boyan Slat.
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