The Ocean Cleanup is a non-profit environmental engineering organization that develops and deploys technologies to extract plastic pollution from the oceans and prevent it from entering the ocean via rivers. They utilize systems like the Interceptor in rivers and large-scale cleanup systems in ocean garbage patches, such as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, aiming to remove 90% of floating ocean plastic by 2040. The Ocean Cleanup partners with various organizations, including The Coca-Cola Company, Maersk, Kia, Coldplay, the Dutch Government, and the UN, to support their mission through funding, in-kind support, and awareness campaigns. Their work addresses Sustainable Development Goal 14, which focuses on life below water.
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The Ocean Cleanup is working with Airbus Defence and Space and Maxar Technologies to evaluate electro-optical and radar satellite data for monitoring the project.
The Ocean Cleanup plans to deploy 60 floating screens with a total of 120 Iridium broadband terminals in its campaign targeting the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Iridium service provider The AST Group is providing L-band terminals to Ocean Cleanup.