Coca‑Cola partners with The Ocean Cleanup across Southeast Asia 

Around the world, rivers carry a huge amount of plastic and other waste into our oceans. The Ocean Cleanup Interceptor is the first scalable solution to prevent plastic waste in the environment, entering the world’s oceans from rivers. 

Coca‑Cola partners with The Ocean Cleanup across Southeast Asia

No two rivers are the same. This partnership supports the trial of innovative ‘Interceptor’ technology including solar powered boats, barriers, guards and tenders, to help clean and stem the flow of plastic from rivers into oceans.

Bringing together Coca Cola teams on the ground together with The Ocean Cleanups technology, the partnership is helping scale solutions, getting one step closer to tackling 1,000 rivers. 

The solar-powered robot extracts plastic autonomously and is capable of operating in many of the world’s most polluting rivers.

Coca‑Cola has supported deployments in Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Malaysia – where a new waste sorting facility opened in 2025.

Beyond financial support, Coca‑Cola supports The Ocean Cleanup across Southeast Asia including driving on-the-ground awareness of the project and its mission, and providing waste management advice.

Our partnerships making a difference

Sea Cleaners - making waves in the fight against marine litter

Since 2019, with the support of The Coca‑Cola Foundation, Sea Cleaners has collected more than 376,000 kilograms of marine litter* from Auckland's waterways and coordinated over 13,000 volunteer hours.

*amount collected between Jan 2019 and Nov 2023

Coca‑Cola and Planet Ark are turning the tide on plastic waste 

Most Australians love recycling and do a good job – if there’s access to the right information. 

That's why Coca‑Cola has teamed up with Planet Ark on National Recycling Week since 2019 to help Aussies understand how to recycle and to raise awareness of Container Deposit Schemes (CDS). 

The Ocean Cleanup partnership

Coca‑Cola is partnering with The Ocean Cleanup in Southeast Asia to help prevent plastic waste flowing from rivers into the world’s oceans. 

No two rivers are the same. This partnership supports the trial of innovative ‘Interceptor’ technology including solar powered boats, barriers, guards and tenders, to help clean and stem the flow of plastic from rivers into oceans.

Bringing together Coca‑Cola teams on the ground together with The Ocean Cleanups technology, the partnership is helping scale solutions.