Hydro supplies aluminium profiles to The Ocean Cleanup

Hydro has supplied aluminium profiles to The Ocean Cleanup’s second-generation Interceptor. The company has delivered aluminium in four different shapes from its Dutch plant in Hoogezand.

“Providing aluminium for such a unique project is truly inspiring. It highlights the opportunities this represents in term of dealing with one the biggest environmental issues we are facing, in addition to the vast prospects of aluminium solutions,” said John Delamboy, commercial director for Hydro Extruded Solutions in the Benelux region.

The Ocean Cleanup, a non-profit organization based in the Netherlands, has developed the Interceptor, an autonomous system for collecting plastic pollution from rivers before it reaches the sea. Aluminium profiles are used as construction parts for the body and roofing. Aluminium is a logical choice because of its corrosion resistance in open waters.

Over the span of five years, the organization aims to halt the 80% of plastic coming from rivers into our oceans by focusing on the most-polluting 1,000 rivers around the world. according to the company, one Interceptor can extract 50,000 kilograms of trash from a river each day, going up to 100,000 kilograms under “optimized conditions.”