The Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit organization, launched a device into the Pacific Ocean to remove plastic. The device brought back 64,000 pounds of trash in two-and-a-half months. The organization found ...
The Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit organization, aims to rid the world's oceans of plastic. It recently debuted a device it said collected 20,000 pounds from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. But some ...
ALAMEDA, Calif. — A ship on Saturday will start towing a long device from Northern California more than 1,000 miles out to sea to begin scooping up a massive heap of trash that's estimated to weigh 88 ...
A new design allows the start two years ahead of schedule. — -- A Dutch foundation dedicated to removing plastic pollution from the world’s oceans announced a new system design today that will ...
When self-described “ocean custodian” Boyan Slat took the stage at TED 2025 in Vancouver this week, he showed viewers a reality many of us are already heartbreakingly familiar with: There is a lot of ...
Sometimes it takes big ideas to solve big problems. A 19-year-old Dutch aerospace engineering student has come up with what he believes is a way to remove millions of pounds of plastic trash from the ...
As a boy tinkerer in the Netherlands, Boyan Slat made zip lines and, at age 14, set a Guinness World Record for launching the most water rockets—213 of them—at once. You know, typical kid stuff. In ...