Ocean Cleanup is a non-profit started in 2013 by then 18-year-old Boyan Slat of the Netherlands. He proposed and developed a number of skimmer-type devices to retrieve plastic floating in the ocean ...

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 ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - An environmental campaign seeks to help keep our beach towns clean. The nonprofit organization, Plastic Ocean Project, launched its “Sustainable Summer” initiative in July.

On Kayak Island, off the south-central coast of Alaska, a team of researchers, students and conservationists combs the shoreline. The team finds a message in a bottle—a rare discovery—but the bottle ...

In October 2019, The Ocean Cleanup project made headlines around the world when its prototype vessel started collecting plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This launch followed a year of ...

In a mission to clean up trash floating in the ocean, environmentalists pulled 40 tons of abandoned fishing nets this month from an area known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Mariners on a ...

Nokia has unveiled plans to deploy private wireless connectivity, network Edge equipment, and analytics for The Ocean Cleanup project. The vendor announced the plans last week as part of efforts to ...

“Modeling predicts we need around 10 full-size systems to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. “After fleets of systems are deployed into every ocean gyre, combined with source reduction, The ...

In an effort to combat global marine pollution, the Dubai Investment Fund (DIF), a leading global investment firm, is actively investing in projects focused on cleaning the oceans of plastic waste.

There’s always some controversy over ocean plastic — such as who is responsible for it and what to do about it — but everyone agrees that plastic doesn’t belong in the ocean. Or do they? I was floored ...