Last week, The Ocean Cleanup, a non-profit organisation headquartered in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, that develops technologies to rid plastic from oceans, officially deployed its first solar-powered cleanup boat/system in the Chao Phraya River at the Commemoration of His Majesty the King Rama X’s 6th Cycle Birthday Park in Bangkok’s Bang Kho Laem district.
It’s a joint effort with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources, Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, The Coca-Cola Company, the Embassy of the Netherlands and more. The project will see Interceptor 019 extract trash while helping us learn more about plastic pollution in Bangkok’s rivers and canals.
Interceptor 019 is part of The Ocean Cleanup’s long-term partnership with The Coca-Cola Company, which began in 2021, to support innovative…
