Photo by Ocean Cleanup.
Ocean Cleanup has removed 200,000 kg (440,924 lbs) of plastic from the Pacific Ocean.
The nonprofit environmental engineering organization aims to remove the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch," a cluster of plastic pollution in the Pacific Ocean that is three times the size of France.
- Ocean Cleanup was founded in 2013 by Dutch inventor and entrepreneur Boyan Slat, who was 18 years old at the time.
- The organization uses a large collection system to remove plastic waste in an area between California and Hawaii.
- Ocean Cleanup announced on Tuesday that its System 002/B completed its first plastic extraction of 2023.
- The 6,260 kg extraction brings the total amount of plastic removed by Ocean Cleanup to over 200,000 kg.
