Watch this system clean millions of pounds of trash from rivers.

Watch this system clean millions of pounds of trash from rivers.

Interceptor 006 is a system of extremely heavy-duty floating booms placed throughout a river to efficiently capture plastic, while allowing the water to pass freely below the surface. It's designed to withstand the pressures of extreme flooding events and to capture maximum plastic.

As the latest iteration of NPO The The Ocean Cleanup's Interceptor technology, Interceptor 006 has been first deployed in the Rio Las Vacas, Guatemala to reduce plastic pollution in rivers and prevent it from ever reaching the oceans. The NPO aims to deploy Interceptor systems in 1,000 most polluting rivers, all over the world, by 2025.