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What the High Seas Treaty Ratification Means for Our Ocean
On Friday, 19 September 2025, the world made history. The High Seas Treaty was officially...
The Great Bubble Barrier Named Finalist for the Zayed Sustainability Prize 2026
Amsterdam, 13 October 2025 – The Great Bubble Barrier is proud to announce that it has been...
Bubble Barrier Amsterdam Captures Over 1 Million Pieces of Plastic – A Milestone for Cleaner Waterways
Amsterdam, 20 August 2025 – Since its launch in 2019, Bubble Barrier Amsterdam has successfully...
What Happened at the United Nations Ocean Conference
This year, the United Nations Ocean Conference took place from 9 to 13 June in Nice, France,...
5 Game-Changing Plastic-Free Innovators You Should Know About
Plastic is a useful and durable material, so why do we use it for items that we will discard in a...
How Bubble Barriers Contribute to Achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals
Plastic pollution is a global challenge affecting our rivers, oceans, and the ecosystems that...
Local Communities Taking Action to Clean Their Rivers
Citizens and local communities witnessed the plastic problem in their rivers and took matters into...
Bubble Barrier Amsterdam: A Success in Tackling Plastic Pollution
In 2019, Amsterdam became the first city in the world to deploy the innovative Bubble Barrier...
Research into the Effects of Plastic Pollution on Human Rights
Research shows that every stage of the plastic life cycle harms the environment and human rights. In June, the UN Human Rights Council commissioned a three-year study on “Plastic Pollution and Its Implications for the Full Enjoyment of Human Rights.”
Meet our Impact Researcher, Finn Begemann
Understanding and quantifying our impact is an essential part of the work we do at The Great...
How Do We Monitor Plastic Pollution in Rivers?
Bubble Barriers are effective tools for catching plastic pollution in rivers. After removing the...
7 Organisations Tackling Plastic Pollution in our Waterways
Plastic pollution is a major threat to our waterways, affecting ecosystems and human health. Tackling this problem requires creative and collaborative solutions. Meet six organisations working to reduce and prevent plastic pollution in our rivers and canals.
The Plastic Soup in Rivers
By Anne Marieke Eveleens When we think of plastic pollution in water, we often associate it with...
8 Facts You Didn’t Know About the Wadden Sea
The Wadden Sea, located in the southeastern part of the North Sea, offers unique geological and...
Bubble Barrier Harlingen catches plastic before it flows into the Wadden Sea, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
APRIL 18, 2024, HARLINGEN - This UNESCO World Heritage Day, we celebrate the implementation of...
Fish and Bubble Barriers
By Anne Marieke Eveleens Plastic pollution is a major threat to all water systems worldwide,...
Why Macroplastics Should Be Considered Water Pollutants
Globally, water systems face a variety of critical threats, such as extreme weather events,...
6 Women Making an Impact on Our Ocean
In honour of International Women’s Day, we would like to introduce you to 6 women making an impact...
What Are Microplastics?
Let’s get to know microplastics! Plastic is integrated into our daily lives in so many ways, yet...
European project MAELSTROM launches a Bubble Barrier in Portugal to catch Plastic in the Ave River at Vila do Conde
VILA DO CONDE, 25 November 2023 - Project MAELSTROM brings together a consortium of 14...
Can Regulation Solve Plastic Pollution?
There is an estimated 200 million tonnes of plastic in our oceans and at the current rate, ocean...
Our Main Take-Away From the UN 2023 Water Conference
The United Nations 2023 Water Conference took place from 22-24 March in New York focusing mainly...
Understanding Sources of Riverine Plastic, Essential to Ending Plastic Pollution
As much as 80% of the plastic found in our oceans is transported from the land by rivers[i]. Even...
Our Take on the UN Ocean Conference 2022
The UN Ocean Conference took place from 27th June to 1st July in Lisbon, Portugal under the theme:...
The Problem with Bioplastics
Plastic from renewable resources is already commonly available on the market, but terms such as...
First Community-Led Bubble Barrier Stops Plastic Pollution From Entering the North Sea
MAY 2022 - What started in 2018 as an initiative of concerned citizens, has now grown into a...
What Does the New UN Treaty Mean for (Riverine) Plastic Pollution
The new UN treaty on plastic pollution has been hailed as the most important environmental...
Plastic Recycling
Plastic is a popular product which is widely used, with an increase in global annual production...
Research on the Bubble Barrier’s Caught Waste by the Plastic Soup Foundation
AMSTERDAM, September 15, 2020 – In the run-up to this Saturday's World Cleanup Day 2020 a research...
First Screen of Air Bubbles Stops Plastic from Amsterdam’s Canals
AMSTERDAM, November 7, 2019 – Today, the first Bubble Barrier was launched in the Westerdok in...
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