NEWS from Los Angeles:
We will be expanding our operations.
Following the success of Interceptor 007, we’ve signed agreements with county and city leaders in Los Angeles to expand our operations to the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Rivers.
This project aims to prevent an estimated 410–628 tons of plastic from entering the Pacific Ocean through the LA rivers each year, with deployments expected ahead of the LA28 Olympic Games.
🎥 footage of our first Interceptor in LA County, Interceptor 007, during rainy season in 2025
From trash... to pillows.
Our goal is to remove waste from the environment and ensure it never re-enters it.
Terrapolyester, an organization based in Honduras, is turning plastic from our Interceptor 021 in El Quetzalito into durable household items such as brooms, brushes, and pillows.
Wishing Sir David Attenborough a happy 100th birthday - thanks for spending a lifetime raising awareness about the importance of having a healthy ocean 🌊
These are eel traps, and we found thousands of them floating in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Eel traps are funnel-shaped fishing devices that capture eels and, due to their shape, prevent escape.
Ghost gear, such as lost eel traps, causes entanglement, ingestion, habitat damage, and ongoing ghost fishing, impacting marine life at all levels, including endangered species.
Discarded fishing gear makes up the largest part of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
We recently contributed to research analyzing 21,000+ pieces of derelict gear using surveys, forensic analysis, and port investigations.
Findings showed that large offshore fleets were the main sources, while smaller coastal fisheries contributed less.
This research also emphasized the durability of discarded fishing gear, which can persist for years and travel across the entire ocean basin - making cleanup efforts a pressing need.
A vast majority of plastic flowing into the ocean can be stopped by deploying Interceptors in the world’s most polluting rivers.
But there’s another source that we must tackle: fishing gear.
Lost longline fishing nets alone could reach a 750,000 km length, enough to stretch to and from the moon.
We are conducting extensive research to understand the source of the problem...
and recently joined the Global Ghost Gear Initiative (GGGI), dedicated to solving abandoned, lost, and discarded fishing gear in the ocean.
This is what progress toward clean oceans looked like in April:
🔹Our research team published its 100th peer-reviewed research paper
🔹In Jamaica, Interceptor 015 captured tons of trash, including multiple fridges and even a couch
🔹Interceptor 023 in Honduras is stopping trash before it reaches the ocean - and performance improvements are underway
🔹 We’re bringing operations to the Philippines, with our first deployment in the Meycauayan River planned in the coming months
🔹 We renewed our partnership with Hyundai Glovis for another four years, which will help us expand our ADIS camera deployments to better map plastic pollution hotspots in the ocean.
Indonesia is home to our first river Interceptor, Interceptor 001 in Jakarta’s Cengkareng Drain, as well as Interceptor 020 in the nearby Cisadane River.
The lessons we learned from these deployments are shaping future in-country and global efforts.
Watch our unfiltered journey tackling plastic pollution in Jakarta - link to the full video in bio.
Interceptor deployments are scheduled for the Philippines. 🇵🇭
As part of our 30 Cities Program, we will deploy our first Interceptor in the Meycauayan River in the coming months to prevent trash from flowing into the ocean from the Manila Bay Region.
