Everwave

🌊 Happy World Oceans Day!
So, let's talk about rivers.

When people think about marine pollution, they often imagine:

🐢 sea turtles
🏝️ remote beaches
🌊 floating garbage patches

But most ocean plastic begins its journey much earlier.After removing over 2.6 million kilograms of waste from rivers and waterways, we have learned one key lesson: The fight for healthy oceans is won or lost upstream.

Every clean-up operation reinforces the same reality:

The most important place to protect the ocean is not the ocean itself.
It's the river carrying waste towards it.

That's why our work focuses on:
🚤 Collection
📊 Data
♻ Recycling
🏗 Infrastructure

Ocean protection is not a single action. It's an infrastructure system.
And systems start upstream.

Every like counts! A big thank you to Paulaner Bräuhaus Singapore for supporting our campaign this World Ocean Day. Together, we are turning awareness into action and are helping keep our waterways clean.

We're proud to make an impact together! 🙏

🌍 Happy World Environment Day!

Let's talk about something we don't discuss often enough: Hope.

Not the kind that comes from headlines.

The kind that comes from witnessing progress firsthand.
✨A riverbank that was once covered in waste now cleaned up.
✨A local team that has built a functioning waste collection system.
✨A partner who decides to invest in long-term impact.
✨A community that takes responsibility and action.

Environmental challenges are real. But so is our progress.

After years of working on rivers around the world, we have learned that change rarely happens all at once.

It happens one project, one partnership and one infrastructure system at a time.

That's what we want to focus on today and every day- because real impact is built over time.

A few weeks ago, everwave took over operations in Sihanoukville.

The site is located in a coastal region facing significant waste management challenges and direct exposure to marine pollution. Since March, our local team has increased collection volumes by around 150% per month, reaching 41 tonnes of waste collected and processed only in May.

Behind these results:
👉 a dedicated local team
👉 daily collection operations
👉 proper processing infrastructure
👉 and transparent reporting and documentation.

This is what scaling impact looks like: real operations, measurable results, and long-term commitment on the ground. We look forward to continuing this journey together with the local communities! ♻️🌍

Another month, another step towards cleaner rivers. 🌍

By May 2026, everwave has removed over 2,634,619 million kilograms of waste in total from rivers and waterways around the world.

Our cleanup systems are currently operating at 5 locations across Europe and Asia, helping to prevent plastic and other waste from entering the ocean.

However, our impact goes beyond the waste we collect. Our growing team of 87 people is creating local jobs and supporting communities through long-term environmental action.

Together with our partners, we continue to expand our mission and increase our measurable impact every month.

Want to become part of the solution? Get in touch with us at [email protected]

Read the full report here: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0vx3pp0.

Do you think plastic pollution begins in the ocean and should therefore be tackled there?

It doesn't.

By the time it gets there, the problem has grown much bigger and become harder to solve, not to mention more expensive.
This is why river cleanups are so important, such as the work of our collection boat in Cambodia, which intercepts waste before it can travel further downstream. Under ideal conditions, our boat can collect up to 20 tonnes of waste from the river directly per day.

This has a positive impact on more than just the appearance of the waterway. It also reduces pressure on marine ecosystems, protects local communities living alongside polluted rivers and creates a measurable environmental impact in areas where intervention is still possible.
This requires infrastructure that works every single day in changing conditions and on a large scale, targeting pollution hotspots directly.

Real impact is not created through symbolic action, but through our work.

Plastic bags don’t end up in nature by accident.
In many places, there’s simply no waste management infrastructure.

In Cambodia’s floating villages, beauty and pollution exist side by side. That’s why we’re here: building systems that collect waste from households and rivers before it reaches the ocean 🌍♻️

Because clean rivers shouldn’t be a privilege.