The Ocean Cleanup develops technologies to extract, prevent, and intercept plastic pollution. The Ocean Cleanup’s goal is to fuel the world’s fight against oceanic plastic pollution, by initiating the largest cleanup in history. Instead of going after the plastic - which would take many thousands of years and billions of dollars to complete - The Ocean Cleanup uses long floating barriers to let the ocean currents concentrate the plastic itself. This passive system is a feasible and cost-effective method to remove half the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in 10 years’ time, while being an estimated 7900x faster and 33x cheaper than conventional methods.