Catching Up with The Ocean Cleanup

• 2024 Wrapped

  2024 Inspirations | Looking towards the future 2024 was another year of impact and protecting the future of our planet. In this year-end wrap-up episode, we look back at the year’s accomplishments and how future generations can be inspired to make a difference. From three large Interceptor deployments to another year of cleaning legacy plastic from The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. With the help of our incredible crew and dedicated supporters like you, we are making extraordinary progress and delivering tangible and measurable impact.   To stay up to date with our latest developments follow us on social media: ⁠Facebook⁠, ⁠Instagram⁠, ⁠LinkedIn⁠, ⁠YouTube⁠, ⁠TikTok⁠, ⁠X⁠, or our website.

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• Community Voices | Creating a better future

  This month, our host, Dan van der Kooy, records the 50th episode of Catching Up in Kingston, Jamaica, sitting on a fishing boat with Jerome "Cliff" Clifford and Colin "Dean" Palmer. Cliff and Dean are two local fishermen from Seaview Gardens, a neighborhood along Sandy Gully in Kingston, Jamaica. Their neighborhood is directly affected by the trash pouring out of the gully each day. Cliff and Dean share stories of what it was like prior to the pollution and discuss the importance of cleaning it up. They share their pride in being part of a major project like the new Interceptor solution and their desire to leave a better future for the local community, fishermen, and future generations. We also hear about the community's involvement in The Ocean Cleanup's deployments in the area. Their goal is to preserve the environment, ensuring that future generations have somewhere to go fishing, something to eat, and a strong community. Right now, they're making history to make sure there's a future. Kingston, Jamaica, is our first Interceptor city. Learn more about it here: ⁠https://theoceancleanup.com/updates/kingston-jamaica-the-first-interceptor-city/⁠ Thank you to all our listeners! We can't believe we have recorded 50 episodes, and we wouldn't have been able to do so without your support. To stay up to date with our latest developments, subscribe to our newsletter at theoceancleanup.com or follow us on social media: Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, TikTok, X.

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• “Can” Culture | The importance of being in the region

  This month, we sit down with Tarkessh Mahendran, our Waste Manager in Malaysia, to discuss the vibe in our Kuala Lumpur regional office and the importance of having a team on the ground, physically located in Southeast Asia. Tarkessh speaks about cultural differences between working in Malaysia and Rotterdam, such as the subtler communication styles in Asia compared to more direct approaches in Europe. He also gives an update on the new sorting center being built on the Klang River to improve plastic recycling, and what this will mean for the future of our Interceptor projects on the Klang.

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• Remote Operations | A River Solution on the Edge of Guatemala

  This month's podcast is from the remote and windy shore of the Rio Motagua. Robert Leijgraaf, aka Bobby, Project Engineer at The Ocean Cleanup, sits with our host, Dan van der Kooy, in the fishing village of El Quetzalito, Guatemala. We're about to deploy the second Interceptor Solution in Guatemala. Bobby talks about the need for another Interceptor Barricade at the end of the Rio Motagua and what we learned from the first project in the country. Interceptor Barricade XL will be about 300km upstream from the first Interceptor Barricade. If it all goes well, the combined impact of the two deployments will stop river pollution right before it enters the Caribbean Sea. Learn more about our new deployment here.

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• Other Impacts | Building a Blueprint to Measure the Unknown

  Not everyone who dedicates their life to dirty oceans and rivers comes from somewhere close to a body of water. Matthias Egger, Head of Environmental and Social Affairs, hails from the Swiss mountains and dedicates his life to the science of making oceans and rivers cleaner for marine life and humans in the future. He discusses how we help local communities by addressing global problems through a holistic but specific lens. While solving pollution on a small scale and changing people's lives, we work on global solutions. We use the data from river deployments in various countries to develop a blueprint for the future by writing Environmental and Social Impact Assessments. This way, we mitigate risks, monitor our actions to create a larger impact on the world, publish research, and strive to make upstream changes. For example, Matthias shares his experience at the INC negotiations, where over 160 countries work on the first international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution. He also talks about his personal experiences throughout his six years working for The Ocean Cleanup and what this means to him as a father. Learn more about how we contribute to environmental and social impact here: https://theoceancleanup.com/environmental-and-social-impact/

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