The Ocean Cleanup

A new step in our global partnership with Coldplay: a limited ‘Notebook Edition’ LP release of their latest album “Moon Music” will be made using river plastic we intercepted in the Rio Las Vacas in Guatemala.

NOW HIRING: Senior Finance Business Partner The Finance Business Partner will be critical in driving financial excellence and strategic decision-making within our organization to ensure our donations are impactfully allocated. As a key liaison between the finance and program management teams, this role is designed to provide comprehensive financial support, insightful analysis, and strategic guidance as we begin the scale-up phase of our mission. Learn more and apply on our website:

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.

Ridding the world’s oceans of plastic is a massive mission. 

Can plastic-eating microbes help? Our recent research in collaboration with scientists from the NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research reveals that a type of marine fungus (P. album) has the potential to degrade polyethylene by converting it into CO2. However, it does so at an extremely slow pace (~0.2 mg per year). Swipe through the carousel to learn more, and check out the link to the research paper in the comments below.

Extraction #101: another 16,210 kg of plastic out of the ocean to be recycled into durable, sustainable products so it never re-enters the environment again. What exactly do we do with the trash we extract from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and rivers? Find out here: https://lnkd.in/er32-Y-q.

NOW HIRING: River Engineer As (Senior) Engineer you contribute to the whole Engineering team (Rivers department) scope through the following tasks and responsibilities: - Architect technical interception solutions - Perform hands-on engineering (design, verification, installation, test, commissioning) on assigned projects - Supervise and review technical work packages of internal colleagues and external suppliers - Contribute to the interception solutions portfolio roadmapping and technical-strategic initiatives in this frame Learn more and apply on our website:

HIRING NOW: Legal Assistant The mission of The Ocean Cleanup is to develop and scale technology to rid the world’s oceans and rivers of plastic. As a Legal Assistant, you will support our mission by playing a vital role in supporting the daily operations of our Legal department. This is an exceptional opportunity for driven legal professionals to enhance their skills while contributing to meaningful environmental impact within a dynamic and fast-paced environment. Learn more and apply on our website:

We extracted 953 truckloads of trash in the Rio Las Vacas, Guatemala this year; below you can see what the river looks like before and after operations. Interceptor 006 is located in the Rio Las Vacas, around 16 km north of Guatemala City. The Rio Las Vacas is a tributary of the Rio Motagua – one of Guatemala’s main waterways and a significant contributor to plastic emissions into the Gulf of Honduras and the Caribbean Sea. Watch a timelapse of one month of Interceptor 006 operations here: https://lnkd.in/gvVWkgDZ

What does it take to turn trash intercepted in the Rio Las Vacas in Guatemala into an LP? A lot of collaboration. This week, together with Coldplay, we announced our first collaborative product: a limited ‘Notebook Edition’ of Coldplay’s latest LP, manufactured using recycled river plastic caught by Interceptor 006 in Guatemala. There are many steps involved in the process of making trash sound good - which in this case, meant no external noise, just the clean sound of Coldplay's new album "Moon Music". Thanks to Coldplay, and all partners involved in helping us turn river plastic into music: Biosfera GT, Compuetos y Derivados, Morssinkhof - Rymoplast, and Sonopress GmbH.

NOW HIRING: River Engineer As Senior Engineer you contribute to the whole Engineering team (Rivers department) scope through the following tasks and responsibilities: - Architect technical interception solutions - Perform hands-on engineering (design, verification, installation, test, commissioning) on assigned projects - Supervise and review technical work packages of internal colleagues and external suppliers - Contribute to the interception solutions portfolio roadmapping and technical-strategic initiatives in this frame Learn more and apply on our website: