Garbage collected from waters worldwide!
Garbage collected from waters worldwide!
More than just collecting garbage
Visible impact worldwide through corporate collaborations
- Collection of waste from waters worldwide
- Development of local infrastructure
- Creation of jobs
Transparency through figures: All stakes at a glance
Year
Cleanup project
Garbage
2020
Slovakia
3,000 kg*
2021
Bosnia and Herzegovina
20,000 kg*
2021
Serbia
12,200 kg*
2021
Germany
25,000 kg**
2021
Slovakia
71,190 kg
2022
Bosnia and Herzegovina
35,491 kg
2022
Romania
156,010 kg
2022
Egypt
20,969 kg
since 2022
Cambodia
1,423,434 kg
since 2023
Thailand
161,726 kg
2023
Bosnia and Herzegovina
29,720 kg
2024
Bosnia and Herzegovina
- kg**
since 2024
Albania
- kg***
*Without weighing slips
**Flood operation: Waste not sold as plastic credits due to the emergency situation
*** In evaluation
Your company can make a difference
Our impact is measurable and visible. Together with our partners, we free waters worldwide from waste and prevent it from entering the oceans. We document every mission in detail. This allows our partners to transparently understand what contribution they are making.
A strong network
Impact on the ground - creating fair wages and new jobs
Our work goes beyond simply collecting waste. Our projects create long-term jobs with fair wages that strengthen the local economy. Our teams in Cambodia, Thailand and other regions not only receive a regular income, but also occupational health and safety resources and regular training opportunities.
Infrastructure development - Sustainable solutions for a clean future
To bring about long-term change, we build the necessary infrastructure on site. With our mobile sorting containers, zero-waste centers and recycling solutions, we ensure that collected waste is not simply removed, but processed in a meaningful way. We create structures that enable waste to be efficiently sorted, recycled or disposed of in an environmentally friendly manner. In this way, we prevent waste from returning to nature.
More about our Impact
We collect any garbage that is in the water or 200 meters around the water. This means that we and our local partners also clean up the banks by hand, as there is an extremely high risk of the garbage lying there getting into the water. This happens, for example, due to rising water levels, rain or wind.
For the cleanup missions from mid-2021, we have weight certificates for the specified quantities of waste.
After the collected material has been dried and the waste has been separated from the wood, it is then transported to the recycling center or the sorting facility. It is then weighed at the recycling centers and we receive the weighing slips.
At the beginning of our first missions, the focus was on removing waste from the environment. Our plastic credits did not yet exist at this time, so we do not have any weighing slips for our first Slovakia assignment in 2020, for example.
The waste was taken by our waste collection boats directly for recycling (including thermal recycling). The values used here are extrapolations that we have drawn from the following data, depending on the application:
- Number of boatloads (one boatload comprises approx. 1.5 tons of waste)
- Container capacity
- Analysis of AI data: on some missions, a drone flew over our site and fed the data to an AI, which was able to tell us what percentage of garbage and what percentage of wood was in the water.
For our Cleanup Missions, the weighing slips are always issued by external organizations or companies (e.g. recycling centers).
We attach great importance to determining the figures as accurately as possible. Figures only deviate where everwave has no influence – for example, due to external circumstances.
A transparent example: In our Cleanup Mission in Slovakia in 2021, for example, we are certain that we have collected more. It is very likely that material was removed before we were able to verify a possibly higher number of tons.
