Ocean Purpose Project

15/04/2026

🌊 Singapore Maritime Week 2026 | Pre-event Evening Experience

Before the heavy discussions on marine policy, panels, and port-side conversations…step into something far more immersive with a nod to Singapore's rich ocean heritage. Join us for an unforgettable night where ocean sustainability meets sound, flavour, and storytelling. A first-of-its-kind collaboration between Ocean Purpose Project, The Singapore EDITION, and our CEO and ex-Singapore Idol Mathilda D'Silva

✨ Jazz & Cocktails By Ocean Purpose Project
📍 Punch Room, The Singapore EDITION
🗓 18 April 2026
⏰ 9:00 PM – Midnight
Sign Up here: https://www.oceanpurposeproject.com/event-details/pre-singapore-maritime-week-jazz-cocktails

Behind the music and cocktails is a deeper story. This isn’t just an evening out. It’s a glimpse into what the future of maritime sustainability feels like.

🍸 What to expect

Ocean-inspired cocktails featuring seaweed, sea grapes & regenerative herbs

A curated experience with whisky — known for its harmony of lychee, honey, citrus, and Mizunara oak

A venue transformed — Punch Room reimagined as a maritime voyage through Southeast Asia’s spice routes

🎶 Live Performances

Mathilda D'Silva — “The Voice” of Singapore Idol, performing Songs of the Sea

Amos Tadete — guitar virtuoso channeling the spirit of the Moluccas (Spice Islands)

Gary Fernandez — immersive handpan & tongue drum rhythms inspired by nature

🌿 A sensory sustainability experience

From Ayurvedic, TCM, and Jamu herbs grown with seaweed fertilisers to storytelling rooted in Project Tanah Air

This is where ocean health meets culture, science, and sound.

🌐 Learn more:

👉 www.oceanpurposeproject.com

⚓ To all Singapore Maritime Week delegates — this is your official invitation to unwind, connect, and experience sustainability… differently.

09/03/2026

🌙 Selamat Hari Raya by the Sea: A Hari Raya Community Beach Clean-Up

At Ocean Purpose Project, we believe in "merayakan pantai" or celebrating the sea with that often cliched spirit of gotong-royong (coming together to help one another) extending beyond our HDBs… all the way to our shores.

This March, join us at the OPP Beach Hub for a special community beach clean-up as we prepare our coastline for the festive season. Just as we "kemaskan" or tidy our homes before Hari Raya, let’s care for the ocean that sustains us.

Bring your family, friends, festive spirit and your kuih-muih, cakes, cookies and lauk- pauk to share with all.

✨ A cleaner coast is the best Raya gift we can give our ocean.

📍 OPP Beach Hub, Pasir Ris Park (Carpark E)
🗓 21 March 2026
⏰ 9.00 AM – 11.00 AM
Sign Up here: https://www.oceanpurposeproject.com/event-details/selamat-hari-raya-gotong-royong-community-beach-cleanup

Whether it’s your first clean-up or your tenth, Jom! Kita jumpa di pantai. See you by the shore.

Celebrate Hari Raya with good vibes and a good tribe! Jom kita kemaskan pantai! Join our rain or shine- jewel of Pasir Ris Beach clean up!

26/02/2026

What if the plastic choking our oceans could power the AI servers running our world?

Goldman Sachs predicts global data centre power demand will increase by 165% by 2030 — driven almost entirely by AI. Singapore and Malaysia alone are facing a doubling of energy needs. The grid is under pressure. And the window to act is narrowing.

Most people are looking for answers in the usual places. OPP has been looking at the shoreline.

Plastic is essentially stored petroleum. The energy locked into every bottle and fragment washing up on our beaches can be extracted — as clean hydrogen, low sulphur fuel oil, carbon nanotubes and carbon black.

One OPP Plastic to Hydrogen unit processes 2,000 kg of plastic daily. Zero grid dependency. Zero fossil fuels. 100% gas emission capture.

And we are thinking bigger.

Imagine floating data centres cooled by seawater and fuelled by hydrogen produced from surrounding ocean plastic. Keppel Ltd.'s Floating Data Centre already points to where AI infrastructure is heading — OPP's modular systems are designed to be exactly what that future needs.

Backed by NTU's Nanyang Environment and Water Research Institute and Bluefield Renewable Energy, and as a founding member of the Sustainable AI Coalition, OPP is building the frameworks that link ocean plastic, clean hydrogen and the future of AI infrastructure.

The ocean isn't just a victim of our waste.

It's the source of our next energy breakthrough.

Turning pollution into solutions.

💡 Data centre operators, energy investors, infrastructure developers and research institutions — we are looking for collaborators ready to build this future with us.
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22/02/2026

Hilton's mission is to Travel with Purpose - a perfect match for our NGO Ocean Purpose Project.

We are honoured to share that Ocean Purpose Project has been selected as a grantee of the Hilton Global Foundation — Singapore's sole representative and one of only four organisations across Southeast Asia chosen from a global field of 18, as part of the Hilton Global Foundation's US$5.4 million commitment for 2026.

This recognition reflects the growing importance of community-driven environmental action in our region — and the belief that ocean health and human opportunity are inseparable.

The funding will expand our Beach Hub to Clean Seas initiative — linking ocean health and soil health with Asian herbs, driving plastic to hydrogen initiatives, and creating more than 2,500 learning and career opportunities for communities connected to the ocean.

We are grateful to the Hilton Global Foundation for their trust, and for championing organisations that protect ecosystems while empowering the communities that depend on them.

This milestone is both an honour and a vote of confidence. Meaningful change happens when purpose and action move together to turn pollution into solutions. 🌊

21/02/2026

February Community Beach Clean-Up

Here's another chance to show up for our shores.

Join us at the OPP Beach Hub as we gather volunteers, families, students, and ocean advocates for a morning of collective action. Every piece removed is a step toward cleaner coastlines and healthier ecosystems.

📍 OPP Beach Hub, Pasir Ris Park (Carpark E)
🗓 28 February 2026
⏰ 9.00am – 11.00am

Whether you’re joining us for the first time or returning as a familiar face, your presence makes a difference.

Because ocean protection is built one community at a time.

💙 See you by the shore.

20/02/2026

World Whale Day

The ocean looks clean from here. For whales feeding below, it's a different story.

Here are 5 facts about whales and plastic pollution that change how we see the ocean.

Whales are symbols of wonder — but also of the systemic plastic crisis we must address:

🐋 Humpback whales feeding on krill ingest around 4 million microplastic pieces daily (fish-eating humpbacks ~200,000)

🐋 Fin whales ingest roughly 6 million pieces daily

🐋 Blue whales may ingest up to 10 million pieces daily

🌊 59 of 92 known cetacean species have documented ingestion of marine debris

🧪 High levels of phthalates found in whale blubber are linked to reproductive harm

They feed at 50–250 metres — where microplastic concentrations are often highest. The problem isn't only on the surface. It never was.

This is the reality that shaped our logo. At first glance, a whale in motion. Look closer, and you may see something else — plastic, waste, the remnants of everyday life. Ocean beauty and ocean damage, held in the same image. Because you can't address what you refuse to see.

On World Whale Day, we're invited to look twice.

Protecting whales means turning pollution into solutions — an ocean defined by life, not debris. 🌊

16/02/2026

Happy Lunar New Year from Ocean Purpose Project!

To welcome the Year of the Fire Horse, we’re celebrating one of our own coastal “horses” - the Estuarine Seahorse (Hippocampus kuda).

Found in shallow waters around Singapore, especially along our northern shores and seagrass meadows, this delicate species thrives near freshwater sources. “Kuda” means horse in Malay; a fitting name for this tiny guardian of our coastal ecosystems.

Measuring just 6–10cm long, these seahorses appear in shades of yellow, brown, pink, or even orange. Often seen in pairs among seagrasses, they are quiet indicators of healthy coastal waters. Occasionally, tiny 2cm “hairy” juveniles can be spotted hidden within seaweeds; a reminder of how much life our shores still hold.

As we step into the new year, may we carry the spirit of resilience and renewal. Protecting the seagrass habitats and coastal waters that species like Hippocampus kuda call home.

Because when we protect ecosystems, we protect the future.

🍊🍊🌊 Wishing you a year of strength, clarity, and purpose.

Ocean Purpose Project drives change with innovative ocean pollution solutions — transforming plastic waste into fuel and restoring marine ecosystems.

14/02/2026

This Valentine’s Day, we’re sending love to the one that sustains us all...the ocean.

It gives quietly. It protects relentlessly. It nourishes endlessly.

From mangroves that shield our coasts to waters that sustain livelihoods and life itself, the ocean has always shown up for us. Today, we’re reminded to show up for it too.

Love isn’t just a feeling.
It’s action. It’s care. It’s responsibility.

This Valentine’s Day, let’s choose a love that lasts - for our oceans, our coasts, and our shared future. 💙

02/02/2026

On World Wetlands Day, we’re reminded that some of the planet’s most powerful climate solutions are also the most overlooked.

Mangroves may cover only a small fraction of Earth’s surface, but their role in climate resilience is outsized; storing carbon, protecting coastlines, and supporting coastal livelihoods.

Today, they are rightly recognised as critical climate infrastructure.

At Ocean Purpose Project, we believe mangrove restoration must go beyond planting. Healthy mangroves depend on clean water and functioning coastal ecosystems - without these conditions, restoration efforts cannot last.

Through Project Tanah Air, we work with nature-based bioremediation to improve water quality, helping create the conditions mangroves need to recover and thrive.

Because protecting wetlands isn’t just about saving ecosystems.

It’s about restoring the systems around them.

31/01/2026

At the SEA-MaP 2nd Innovation Expo in Bangkok, Ocean Purpose Project joined regional leaders to confront a hard truth facing ASEAN: plastic pollution cannot be solved by recycling targets alone.

Within the SEA-MaP and NPAP ecosystem dialogue, one message was clear. ASEAN’s plastic challenge must be addressed upstream, and Plastic-to-Hydrogen needs to sit alongside recycling, EPR, and collection reform as part of the region’s circular economy toolkit.

Three key insights from SEA-MaP reinforced this urgency:

1️⃣ Plastic placed on the market is rising faster than recycling can keep up
Across ASEAN, Plastic Placed on the Market (POM) continues to grow year-on-year, while a large share of low-grade, multilayer, and contaminated plastics remains economically unrecyclable.

Plastic-to-Hydrogen addresses this non-recyclable remainder — the plastics most likely to leak into rivers, coastlines, and landfills.

2️⃣ Higher recycling rates do not automatically reduce marine leakage
SEA-MaP discussions highlighted a critical gap: improved recycling rates do not always translate into lower marine pollution due to uneven collection coverage, downcycling, and upstream leakage.

Plastic-to-Hydrogen bypasses fragile recycling markets by converting plastic waste directly into energy carriers, reducing reliance on landfill and open dumping.

3️⃣ Marine debris is the ultimate indicator — and prevention must happen upstream

Once plastic enters waterways, removal costs escalate and ecological damage becomes long-term.

Plastic-to-Hydrogen functions as an upstream prevention tool, intercepting plastic before leakage and transforming an environmental liability into hydrogen and energy outputs.

If ASEAN is serious about reducing marine plastic pollution, protecting coastal livelihoods, and advancing the energy transition, Plastic-to-Hydrogen must complement — not compete with — existing circular economy strategies.

We’re grateful to the SEA-MaP team, regional partners, NPAP leaders, and ecosystem builders for creating space not just for dialogue, but for implementation.

30/01/2026

Our January Community Beach Clean-Up was a reminder of what happens when people show up with care and intention.

Volunteers gathered at Pasir Ris to look after our coastline — clearing waste, learning together, and starting the year grounded in action rather than words.
Moments like these matter. When communities come together to care for shared spaces, small efforts add up to long-term impact.

Thank you to everyone who joined us and made the morning meaningful. This is how ocean protection begins — together.