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Marine Conservation organizations in Europe, Africa and the Middle East
Ocean Cleanup
The Ocean Cleanup
Netherlands
Region Active
Global
Charity
2013
Activity
Description
Marine pollution, Plastic pollution, Pollution of the sea, Ocean debris, Cleanup machinery, Marine conservation technology
Initiated by Dutch teenager Boyan Slat in 2013, The Ocean Cleanup is designing and developing cleanup systems to clean up what is already polluting our oceans and to intercept plastic on its way to the ocean via rivers via their Interceptors. The Ocean Cleanup's team consists of more than 120 engineers, researchers, scientists and computational modelers working daily to rid the world's oceans of plastic.
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