FUTURE. A LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT’S IMPRESSIVE INVENTION IS HELPING CLEAN UP PLASTIC IN THE OCEAN. ANNA DU OF ANDOVER SAYS SHE WAS INSPIRED AT THE AGE OF 11 BY HER LOVE OF MAKING JEWELRY OUT OF SEA ...

Inventor Boyan Slat is on a mission to rid oceans of plastic. His team at The Ocean Cleanup designs and deploys systems that pull trash from the open ocean. Now, he’s stopping the pollution at its ...

What’s the best way to get plastic out of the ocean? Two nonprofits take different approaches to the problem of removing the 24 billion pounds of plastic that flow into the ocean each year—and face ...

Marine scientists are witnessing a technological revolution in ocean cleanup. Revolutionary systems are transforming how we tackle plastic pollution, from autonomous robots to artificial intelligence ...

The Ocean Cleanup device has been redesigned—and is almost ready to try again After its first voyage resulted in disappointment, Boyan Slat's team has made some major fixes. Now they're ready to try ...

The Ocean Cleanup started removing plastic from the ocean a decade ago. But most of that plastic comes from rivers, so it started building solar-powered river cleaners to catch garbage before it goes ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Rebecca Helm despises the phrase “Great Pacific Garbage Patch.” This moniker is used ...

A Massachusetts teenager's impressive invention is helping to clean up small pieces of plastic from the ocean.Anna Du, 17, said she was inspired to create her machine at the age of 11 when she found ...