Podcasts by Catching Up with The Ocean Cleanup
Catching Up is a podcast by The Ocean Cleanup, giving you updates and insights from the team behind the non-profit organization. The Ocean Cleanup is designing and developing cleanup systems to clean up what is already polluting our oceans and to intercept plastic on its way to the ocean via rivers. Their end goal is to remove 90% of floating ocean plastic by 2040.
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Data-driven | What's the pattern? from 2023-11-28T11:26:24
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 Caribbean to diplomatic meetings in Kenya, Renata ...
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#Teamseas Report | Engineers & Influencers from 2023-10-31T09:51:16
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. Catching Up speaks to Matt Fitzgerald, co-foun...
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Offshore Legend | A Major Inspiration from 2023-09-26T09:20:09
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 with The Ocean Cleanup, and here - directly fr...
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Family Vibes | Transforming Kingston Harbour from 2023-08-29T07:36:38
Rae Town, Kingston, Jamaica: an iconic location and the perfect place to catch up on The Ocean Cleanup's Jamaica project. With five Interceptors deployed in gullies around the city (and more...
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Plastic Studies | Poring Over Polymers from 2023-07-25T07:51:41
"Science has always been my passion.” Sarah-Jeanne Royer, our resident oceanographer and research scientist on plastic degradation, has a storied background. In this episode, she takes us f...
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Boyan’s Mind | Reflections from Guatemala and beyond from 2023-06-27T11:25:29
Alongside the newly-deployed Interceptor 006 in Guatemala, CEO and Founder of The Ocean Cleanup, Boyan Slat, reflects on the four-year campaign to intercept tsunamis of trash in this one-of-a-ki...
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Constant Improvement | Passing The Torch from 2023-05-30T13:21:57
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 find out what he's learned during his po...
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The Fixer | The IT connection in the history of our technology company from 2023-04-25T12:19:10
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 history of the organization and how the ...
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The Gatekeeper | So what do you do with my money? from 2023-03-28T10:30:16
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 the world. So how do our supporters know we’r...
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Building Bridges | Planet-sized Problems from 2023-02-28T13:08:46
Plastic pollution afflicts the whole world, and solving it requires countries, governments and other organizations to work together. To rid the oceans of plastic, we need action at every level: ...
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Looking Ahead | Maps, models and monitoring from 2023-01-31T11:37:19
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 us how research and data-driven science form th...
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2022 Wrapped | Another wild year from 2022-12-27T12:03:17
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 same time. Listen as the Executive Producer of...
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Keeping Promises | What’s in a name? from 2022-11-29T12:36:56
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 tells us what drives him to keep growing the s...
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Operational Pressure | What It Really Takes to Deploy an Interceptor from 2022-10-25T10:58:16
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 The Ocean Cleanup, along with what goes on be...
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Little Sparks | Finish What We Started from 2022-09-27T13:05:26
Exciting times for our Oceans program: record catch figures, improved efficiency, and in transition to System 03 - the perfect time to catch up with our new Director Oceans a.i., Joël Jansen, so...
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Big Challenges | Make it or Break it from 2022-08-30T09:47:50
Every non-profit stands or falls on its finances. Luckily, The Ocean Cleanup’s new Chief Financial Officer, Stacey Santoso, brings a wealth of experience, first from the corporate world and late...
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Dream Job | The How and the Why from 2022-07-26T09:49:44
From Bangkok’s Chao Phraya river, River Surveyor Engineer David Higgins explains how he identifies which rivers can most benefit from our intervention. David shares the emotions he has exper...
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So Close | Boyan back in Guatemala from 2022-06-28T11:11:05
Boyan Slat, Founder and CEO of The Ocean Cleanup, describes his contrasting emotions following the first trial of the Interceptor Trashfence in Guatemala. Boyan shares how he takes learnings fro...
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Visual Impact | Documenting our mission from 2022-05-31T13:30:36
Direct from the Guatemalan jungle, we catch up with our Head of Creative and Documentary Productions, Florent Beauverd, and ask him why documenting the largest cleanup in history is so important...
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Pitching, Catching | Putting together the Asian jigsaw puzzle from 2022-04-26T11:49:52
Director Asia, Steven Paalman, talks about the experience of traveling with Boyan Slat and Team Asia to assist in progressing various river projects and meet key partners in the region. He also ...
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Project Management | Adapting and Improving for the Future from 2022-03-29T13:06:11
Alice Collins is the Project Manager for our upcoming Interceptor 007 deployment in Los Angeles County. After a recent globe-straddling trip to visit Interceptor projects in Malaysia and the US,...
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Both Sides | The Importance of Partners from 2022-02-22T09:55:04
Ocean Operations Manager Glen Kissack talks about how he juggles the relationship between Maersk Supply Service and The Ocean Cleanup – both in the office as well as offshore. He also look...
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Talking Trash | Making Waste Fun from 2022-01-31T15:05:15
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 water, how we are using a new app to track it, an...
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2021 Reflections | Celebrating Success and adapting culture from 2021-12-28T15:52:15
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 and what it was like to experience it from the...
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About #TeamSeas | Reaching new demographics from 2021-12-07T10:10:30
Senior Partnership Manager Fleur Elverding and Social Media Manager Viktorija Gaizutyte talk about how the #TeamSeas campaign and working with Mr. Beast and Mark Rober has opened the door for an...
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What Now? | What we’ll do with 28,659 kg of plastic from 2021-10-28T13:02:56
Talking all things plastic processing, Catch Management Director, Stella van den Berg, walks us through how we will process the plastic we collected during the testing of System 002 in the Great...
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Emotional Impressions | Perseverance pays off from 2021-09-29T14:05
Eight weeks into the System 002 mission and three years since first deploying our technology in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch we are catching plastic. The Ocean Cleanup's Reijnder de Feijter, ...
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Pioneering Offshore | Build, break, learn, repeat from 2021-08-31T13:22:02
In The Ocean Cleanup’s first podcast recorded from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, two senior project engineers on board the Maersk Trader, Fedde Poppenk and Fraser Keil, give us a glimpse into...
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What’s New? | The technology has shifted with ocean System 002 from 2021-07-27T11:16:44
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 from a Tom Hanks movie and the design feature...
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Boyan’s update | On location in Guatemala from 2021-06-29T11:33:35
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 most polluting rivers in the world. He shar...
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About Seaspiracy | How science helps tell impactful stories from 2021-05-27T14:04:48
Ali and Lucy Tabrizi, Director and Assistant Director of the Netflix documentary Seaspiracy, sat down with our Lead Ocean Scientist, Matthias Egger, to talk about the importance of science, tech...
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Passion & Emotion | The Guatemala Story from 2021-04-27T11:09:39
Head of Environmental and Social Affairs, Michelle Tishler, and Business Development Manager in Latin America, Frank Behrens, discuss their thoughts on a specific pollution problem in Guatemala ...
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Jamaican Sparkle | On location from Kingston Harbour from 2021-03-30T10:00
A small team from The Ocean Cleanup traveled to Jamaica to continue research and business development for the gully pollution problem in Kingston Harbour. In this special on-location episode, we...
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French Connection | Something’s just around the corner for the Oceans from 2021-02-23T15:11:46
Senior Project Engineer for the Ocean team, Manon Ait Amarouche, tells us how past experiences, hobbies, and even critics have helped inspire her journey at The Ocean Cleanup. She also hints at ...
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WILSON's Legacy from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 Manager, Eva Snijder, and Project Engineer,...
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Together Again from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Director of our Ocean team, Henk van Dalen, and Interceptor Senior Engineer, Ian Smith, sit down together (socially distanced) at The Ocean Cleanup’s Rotterdam headquarters to reflect over the l...
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Ladies First from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In this premier episode, we catch up with Lonneke Holierhoek, Director of Operations, and Eline Spek, Program Manager, to talk about the COVID-19 crisis and how it has affected our mission to ri...
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After Curfew | Floating down the Rio Ozama to Interceptor 004 from 2021-01-26T09:55:12
Gently floating along the Rio Ozama - Dominican style - with Erik Holmbom, our project manager in the Dominican Republic. In this episode, we chatted about the effects of COVID-19 and the import...
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Uncharted Territories | Unique types of research to help clean the ocean from 2020-11-25T09:20:49
In the latest conversation, we caught up with Ellen, Legal Counsel, and Lourens, Head of Data & Monitoring at The Ocean Cleanup. They’ll share why we need lawyers and applied researchers at ...
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WILSON's Legacy | Going Full Circle by recycling ocean plastic and our first cleanup system from 2020-10-05T15:05:55
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 Manager, Eva Snijder, and Project Engineer,...
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Together Again | Developing cleanup technologies through a learning-by-doing approach from 2020-07-21T13:06:44
Director of our Ocean team, Henk van Dalen, and Interceptor Senior Engineer, Ian Smith, sit down together (socially distanced) at The Ocean Cleanup’s Rotterdam headquarters to reflect over the l...
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Ladies First | How the COVID-19 crisis affects our mission from 2020-05-14T17:50:17
In this premier episode, we catch up with Lonneke Holierhoek, Director of Operations, and Eline Spek, Program Manager, to talk about the COVID-19 crisis and how it has affected our mission to ri...
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