Stop ocean-bound plastic pollution!

Stop waves of river pollution before it becomes ocean pollution!

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Bottles worth of ocean-bound plastic removed
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What $1 can accomplish

Cleans plastic by 50 bottles
Monthly
Cleans plastic by 200 bottles
Weekly
Cleans plastic by 1500 bottles
Daily
13,139

Ocean-bound plastic removed

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TrashBoom Operation # 11 / 117.0 k donors | $ 299,835 raised total $220,000
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The problem

11 million tons of plastic pollution enter the oceans every year, killing over 650,000 marine animals every year. About 50% of ocean plastic comes from less than 2,000 polluted rivers.

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The solution

The Trashboom is a simple technology that catches plastic pollution in rivers before it reaches the ocean!

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Meet the Trashboom
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about The project

Trashbooms stop ocean-bound plastic in polluted rivers before it gets to the ocean and kills marine life. The technology is designed to be low-tech, low-cost and built with local materials. Workers are 100% locally employed to permanently remove waste that is collected.

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Best dollar you've ever donated

$1 Return on Donation:

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2 lbsRemoved per dollar
Meet Ocean Plastic.
It sucks.
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11MTons

Of plastic enters the ocean each year

50%

Of ocean plastic comes from rivers and coasts

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Animals killed by plastic pollution every year

We vetted the crap out of this project
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4 - 6 week vetting process per project

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Scarlett Arana
Scarlett AranaUnited Nations SDG 14 Ambassador (Life Below Water)

“Excellent, scalable solution at low cost where plastic debris collection is lacking.”

Tom Chi
Tom ChiCo-founder, Google X

“Rivers are a natural place to attack the ocean plastic problem. I appreciate their appropriate technology lens to how they are looking at the problem.”

Christopher Verlinden, PhD
Christopher Verlinden, PhDU.S Coast Guard; CTO, Applied Ocean Sciences

“This is a no brainer. Simple, efficient and effective.”

Chad Frischmann
Chad FrischmannFounder, Regenerative Intelligence; former Director, Project Drawdown

“Plastic Fischer’s approach is the type of win-win-win solution we need to effectively prevent a lot of plastic from entering the ocean in the first place.”

Verified Impact guarantee

Results of your donation will be shown to you on your Donation Tracker. No more guessing what happened.

Every $1 removes 50 bottles worth of ocean-bound plastic
Top Global Solution

Plastic Fischer identified as the world's current top solution in river plastic cleanup.

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At least half of all oxygen on the planet comes from the ocean

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