In 2014, the design was revised, replacing the central platform with a tower detached from the floating barriers. Slat did not specify the dimensions of this system in the talk. The barriers would direct the floating plastic to the central platform, which would remove the plastic from the water. The initial design consisted of long, floating barriers fixed to the seabed, attached to a central platform shaped like a manta ray for stability. In October, Slat outlined the project in a TED-talk. Slat proposed the cleanup project and supporting system in 2012. In late October 2019, The Ocean Cleanup announced a new initiative, the Interceptor, to tackle the trash problem closer to the source, with plans to prevent 80% of riverine trash coming from 1000 rivers worldwide. The project aims to launch a total of 60 such systems, and they predict this capability could clean up 50% of the debris in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in five years from full scale deployment. Their ocean system consists of a floating barrier at the surface of the water in the oceanic gyres, that collects marine debris as the system is pushed by wind, waves and current, and slowed down by a sea anchor. It has conducted two expeditions to the North Pacific Gyre, the Mega Expedition and the Aerial Expedition, and continues to publish scientific papers. It was founded in 2013 by Boyan Slat, a Dutch-born inventor- entrepreneur of Croatian and Dutch origin who serves as its CEO. The organization conducts scientific research into oceanic plastic pollution. In 2022, the first Interceptor Original deployed in the United States will be installed in Ballona Creek near Los Angeles, California. In 2021, they announced that the prototype testing of System 002 was successful. They also deployed their river technology, the Interceptor, in two locations in 2019, revealed the project publicly in October 2019, and deployed another in 2020. In June 2019, their second prototype system was deployed. It ran into difficulty after two months and was towed to Hawaii for inspection and repair. After initial testing and prototyping in the North Sea they deployed their first full-scale prototype in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The Ocean Cleanup is a nonprofit engineering environmental organization based in the Netherlands, that develops technology to extract plastic pollution from the oceans and intercept it in rivers before it can reach the ocean.
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