Explaining the Interceptor | Cleaning Rivers | The Ocean Cleanup

In order to clean the world's 1000 most polluting rivers, we build the Interceptor™. And here's how it works.

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To rid the oceans of plastic, we need to not only clean up what is already out there, but also stop new plastic from entering the ocean: we need to close the tap.

Rivers are the main source of ocean plastic pollution. They are the arteries that carry waste from land to the ocean. Our research found that 1000 rivers are responsible for roughly 80% of the pollution.

Working together with government leaders and private corporations, our goal is to tackle these 1000 most polluting rivers, all over the world, by 2025. How? By deploying Interceptors.

The Interceptor is The Ocean Cleanup’s answer for river plastic waste. It is the first scalable solution to prevent plastic from entering the world’s oceans from rivers.

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[gwenhauwuk]

Hope this will be a moment noted in history for its success.🙏🏼

[chiraggupta]

Please put this project in India espically in ganga river

[sang]

The project has been launched in Vietnam. Hope this would help.. all the best

[oluwafisayomiadesina]

Amazing concept. Intercepting the problem before it gets to the ocean is an awesome strategy but letting the waste come to the solution organically, now that’s ingenious. Getting things done ✅

[Jaqvander]

To clean up the symptoms with interceptors is a fantastic step!!!

I hope that humanity will continue to plan to change the human behaviour that is causing the pollution: to make cultural changes, changes in the individual mindset, as well as continue to facilitate the world's poorest people to get themselves out of poverty.

To make the poorest people in the world care about recycling when they spend every waking second surviving, isn't gonna happen. You and I wouldn't waste a second on considering recycling when we need that time to fill our stomachs or those of our children.

long-term I suggest: clean up the water by cleaning up people's mindsets: the happier the person, the less material stuff they feel like buying and owning. The happier the parent, the happier the child.
A healthy future can only be based on a healthy mind: hip hip hurray for planet-wide psychological healing!🥳

[juanolotgn]

Yes! I always wondered why I didn't hear from a plan from you guys to tackle plastic closer to its source

If the amount of rubbish is measured, these could also serve to put pressure on local lawmakers

[azr]

I just want to say THANK YOU VERY MUCH to whoever do this. Please keep up the good work, and I wish you receive much more good in return for your kind and wonderful actions to the world

[danielwhyatt]

First. Hehe. Brilliant work to the ocean cleanup crew. This seems like a project that really will work and its brilliant to hear that the first three units have already been implemented on some of the dirtiest rivers in the world. It would be brilliant to have a couple of these along the Thames river as well. Look forward to seeing full implementation in the future. Here’s to the next 5 years.👍🏼

[TheOneAndOnlyLewis]

That song brings me back. Good job guys, I wish I was smart enough to work with your team.

[funny-video-YouTube-channel]

Nice machine. We all love clean beaches.
This machine can make our beaches clean. A good way to make money and to improve the wealth around the beach regions !

[BalboaBaggins]

Thanks for cleaning up Asia's mess guys, we're proud of you and support you 👌 👍 💖

[mrspeaceu]

Hope people appreciate this. Areas ought to be billed for, or somehow contribute to the cost for the debris that is picked up as well.

[philipwehinger]

this, ladies and gentleman, is a very clever and sustainable

[edhiett]

This is totally awesome, thank you for doing all that you do!!! We need to ban plastic world wide. New eco-friendly recipes exist. We need to switch and start using them!

[josedacunhafilho]

Imagine if the three billionaire, man-children decided that, if instead of playing with rockets (what is the fascination with large phallic objects anyway!?), that they would, instead, compete with each other to see who can help out the planet's environment more, like, who can remove more trash from the oceans, or who can plant more trees, or who can help bring more animal species away from the brink of extinction?

[MayuriK_it]

Wow, awesome initiative, really good! Good job Ocean cleanup!

[swank]

What is the down time for emptying the bins? Does the barge get swapped like a roll off dumpster where an empty barge comes out and a full one is take back to be swapped back on the next trip? When operating under solar power what is it's duty cycle? Does it run 24/7 or have to cycle on and off?

[SpikeTheSpiker]

I love what you're doing, and you're probably getting something like 90% of plastics out of the ocean but what is the solution for non surface level plastics and microplastics?

[mind]

Many thanks! The Interceptor 😀😍🙏🙏🙏 Aha, Tonight, I seemed to Enjoyed to listen to the country music 😁😄😅😊😇🤭(and until to fell asleep as usual) 🙃☺️🤗

[michaellawrence]

This is an incredible idea, good luck to the engineering and implementation team. I want to put one on my home river the Fraser River in British Columbia