Catching Up with The Ocean Cleanup
Episodes
2024 Wrapped
31 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 episo...
Community Voices | Creating a better future
05 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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" Cl...
“Can” Culture | The importance of being in the region
24 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 import...
Remote Operations | A River Solution on the Edge of Guatemala
27 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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, si...
Other Impacts | Building a Blueprint to Measure the Unknown
30 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Future Impact | Our Real Bosses
25 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s ‘Bring Your Kids To Work Day’ at The Ocean Cleanup HQ! Your host, Dan van der Kooy, has traveled the world braving all kinds of hazardous ...
Pollution Law | Navigating the rules
28 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Not all lawyers stay in the office or the courtroom. Letícia Abreu Passos de Souza grew up seeing the damage caused by pollution in her native Brazil...
Relationship Building | Bangkok Begins
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We're in Bangkok, Thailand, where Interceptor 019 has been deployed as our first step in cleaning the Chao Phraya - one of the world's busiest...
Taking Action | Part of the Solution
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do we clean the oceans? With a little help from our friends, of course - and Ewan Topping, Senior Partnership Manager at The Ocean Cleanup, is the...
Life Offshore | How It Feels to Be Right There
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Ocean Cleanup is heading back to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch with System 03, so Catching Up speaks to Senior Offshore Representative Grete Ern...
Conversation Starter | What does your river mean to you?
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s not just about plastic - it’s about people, too. Suleman Audu, Environmental Manager at The Ocean Cleanup, takes us from his schoolboy Envir...
2023 Accomplished | How We Did
26 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been a stellar year for The Ocean Cleanup. New deployments, global negotiations, and an incredible global catch total of over 8 million kg (alm...
Data-driven | What's the pattern?
28 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Data is nothing without the brains to understand it correctly - and we have just the brain for the job. From plastic-infested riverbanks in the Caribb...
#Teamseas Report | Engineers & Influencers
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It all started with an idea on a napkin...and now #TeamSeas is celebrating 20 million lbs (9 million kilograms!) of trash removed around the world. Ca...
Offshore Legend | A Major Inspiration
26 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Flemming Sloth Andersen is a name that will forever be linked to our ocean cleaning operations. Flemming has spent over one year of his life at sea wi...
Family Vibes | Transforming Kingston Harbour
29 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rae Town, Kingston, Jamaica: an iconic location and the perfect place to catch up on The Ocean Cleanup's Jamaica project. With five Interceptors d...
Plastic Studies | Poring Over Polymers
25 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Science has always been my passion.” Sarah-Jeanne Royer, our resident oceanographer and research scientist on plastic degradation, has a stori...
Boyan’s Mind | Reflections from Guatemala and beyond
27 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alongside the newly-deployed Interceptor 006 in Guatemala, CEO and Founder of The Ocean Cleanup, Boyan Slat, reflects on the four-year campaign to int...
Constant Improvement | Passing The Torch
30 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After three years in the Dominican Republic, Operations Manager Erik Holmbom is preparing to return to HQ in Rotterdam. Catching Up speaks to Erik to ...
The Fixer | The IT connection in the history of our technology company
25 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The technology at The Ocean Cleanup goes way beyond only what is visible in the oceans and rivers. Our IT Manager, Steven Bink, discusses his role in ...
The Gatekeeper | So what do you do with my money?
28 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ridding the oceans of plastic costs money - lots of it. As a non-profit project, every cent The Ocean Cleanup spends comes from a donor somewhere in t...
Building Bridges | Planet-sized Problems
28 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Plastic pollution afflicts the whole world, and solving it requires countries, governments and other organizations to work together. To rid the oceans...
Looking Ahead | Maps, models and monitoring
31 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ridding the oceans of plastic doesn’t start on the sea - it starts in the lab. Head of Research Laurent Lebreton calls in from New Zealand to tell u...
2022 Wrapped | Another wild year
27 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Trying to tie up an entire year at The Ocean Cleanup is an impossible thing, especially in a year with so many monumental projects happening at the sa...
Keeping Promises | What’s in a name?
29 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With a few Florida manatees for company, The Ocean Cleanup’s Head of Communications Joost Dubois gives us the story behind telling the story. Joost ...
Operational Pressure | What It Really Takes to Deploy an Interceptor
25 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
From alongside Interceptor 007, Operations Manager Alex Mills talks about some of the highs and lows that he has been a part of during his career at T...
Little Sparks | Finish What We Started
27 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Exciting times for our Oceans program: record catch figures, improved efficiency, and in transition to System 03 - the perfect time to catch up with o...
Big Challenges | Make it or Break it
30 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Every non-profit stands or falls on its finances. Luckily, The Ocean Cleanup’s new Chief Financial Officer, Stacey Santoso, brings a wealth of exper...
Dream Job | The How and the Why
26 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
From Bangkok’s Chao Phraya river, River Surveyor Engineer David Higgins explains how he identifies which rivers can most benefit from our interventi...
So Close | Boyan back in Guatemala
28 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Boyan Slat, Founder and CEO of The Ocean Cleanup, describes his contrasting emotions following the first trial of the Interceptor Trashfence in Guatem...
Visual Impact | Documenting our mission
31 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Direct from the Guatemalan jungle, we catch up with our Head of Creative and Documentary Productions, Florent Beauverd, and ask him why documenting th...
Pitching, Catching | Putting together the Asian jigsaw puzzle
26 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Director Asia, Steven Paalman, talks about the experience of traveling with Boyan Slat and Team Asia to assist in progressing various river projects a...
Project Management | Adapting and Improving for the Future
29 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Alice Collins is the Project Manager for our upcoming Interceptor 007 deployment in Los Angeles County. After a recent globe-straddling trip to visit ...
Both Sides | The Importance of Partners
22 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ocean Operations Manager Glen Kissack talks about how he juggles the relationship between Maersk Supply Service and The Ocean Cleanup – both i...
Talking Trash | Making Waste Fun
31 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
River Field Scientist Thomas Mani and Recycling Manager John Verhoeven answer the tough questions about trash – from how it ends up in a body of wat...
2021 Reflections | Celebrating Success and adapting culture
28 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Managing Director, Jacob Fonteijne and Director of the Ocean Team, Henk van Dalen look back at another crazy and historic year at The Ocean Cleanup an...
About #TeamSeas | Reaching new demographics
07 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Senior Partnership Manager Fleur Elverding and Social Media Manager Viktorija Gaizutyte talk about how the #TeamSeas campaign and working with Mr. Bea...
What Now? | What we’ll do with 28,659 kg of plastic
28 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Talking all things plastic processing, Catch Management Director, Stella van den Berg, walks us through how we will process the plastic we collected d...
Emotional Impressions | Perseverance pays off
29 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Eight weeks into the System 002 mission and three years since first deploying our technology in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch we are catching plasti...
Pioneering Offshore | Build, break, learn, repeat
31 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In The Ocean Cleanup’s first podcast recorded from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, two senior project engineers on board the Maersk Trader, Fedde P...
What’s New? | The technology has shifted with ocean System 002
27 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week the team will embark on the next mission into Great Pacific Garbage Patch with System 002. Its nickname is inspired by (another) character f...
Boyan’s update | On location in Guatemala
29 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Founder and CEO of The Ocean Cleanup, Boyan Slat, went with the project team to Guatemala to explore solutions for the pollution problem in one of the...
About Seaspiracy | How science helps tell impactful stories
27 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ali and Lucy Tabrizi, Director and Assistant Director of the Netflix documentary Seaspiracy, sat down with our Lead Ocean Scientist, Matthias Egger, t...
Passion & Emotion | The Guatemala Story
27 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Head of Environmental and Social Affairs, Michelle Tishler, and Business Development Manager in Latin America, Frank Behrens, discuss their thoughts o...
Jamaican Sparkle | On location from Kingston Harbour
30 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A small team from The Ocean Cleanup traveled to Jamaica to continue research and business development for the gully pollution problem in Kingston Harb...
French Connection | Something’s just around the corner for the Oceans
23 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Senior Project Engineer for the Ocean team, Manon Ait Amarouche, tells us how past experiences, hobbies, and even critics have helped inspire her jour...
After Curfew | Floating down the Rio Ozama to Interceptor 004
26 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Gently floating along the Rio Ozama - Dominican style - with Erik Holmbom, our project manager in the Dominican Republic. In this episode, we chatted ...
Uncharted Territories | Unique types of research to help clean the ocean
25 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the latest conversation, we caught up with Ellen, Legal Counsel, and Lourens, Head of Data & Monitoring at The Ocean Cleanup. They’ll share w...
WILSON's Legacy | Going Full Circle by recycling ocean plastic and our first cleanup system
05 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As we gear up to launch our first product made with plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, we caught up with Recycling and Material Development...
Together Again | Developing cleanup technologies through a learning-by-doing approach
21 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Director of our Ocean team, Henk van Dalen, and Interceptor Senior Engineer, Ian Smith, sit down together (socially distanced) at The Ocean Cleanup’...
Ladies First | How the COVID-19 crisis affects our mission
14 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this premier episode, we catch up with Lonneke Holierhoek, Director of Operations, and Eline Spek, Program Manager, to talk about the COVID-19 cris...