Team members
The core group running strategy, operations, data and communications.
About us
Get to know our team.
We are a group of professionals who decided to work on the river instead of talking about it. Our purpose is to make sure life keeps flourishing — in the cradle of civilisation and everywhere else.
Organisation
How the foundation is structured.
Volunteers
Local crews and international supporters who make cleanups and events happen.
Scientists
Researchers on water quality, microplastics and basin ecology.
External team
Partner organisations, agencies and specialists contracted per programme.
Goals
What we hold ourselves to.
Recover waste at scale
Move river recovery from symbolic volumes to measurable tonnage per stretch.
Close the data gap
Continuous, open water quality and waste data for the whole basin.
Change behaviour
Education programmes that reach schools and households, not just conferences.
Build durable partnerships
Agreements with municipalities, companies and NGOs that outlast any campaign.
Systemic change
Three levels have to move at once.
Individuals
People in the basin and worldwide changing daily habits and demanding better.
Companies
Businesses operating around the basin redesigning packaging, waste and logistics.
States
Governments funding infrastructure and enforcing what already exists on paper.