December 10, 2020 After a little over a year of successfully dragging literal tons of plastic waste and pollution out of the world’s oceans, The Ocean Cleanup company has decided to tackle the primary source of ocean pollution: polluted rivers. What’s more, they’ll be doing so with an all-new, state-of-the-art river vessel called the Interceptor. Interceptor 004, image courtesy of The Ocean Cleanup. Built in conjunction with Konecranes, The Ocean Cleanup’s new Interceptor fleet is designed to extract plastic from rivers before it even makes its way into the world’s oceans. This is an important step for the non-profit organization, as the company prepares to scale up production of the Interceptor as it tries to reach its stated goal of cleaning up the world’s 1000 most polluting rivers.