For someone who gets violently seasick, Boyan Slat spends a lot of time thinking about the ocean. The Dutch inventor has designed the world’s first ocean plastic cleanup system but admits he won’t be ...

The Ocean Cleanup has removed over 45 million kilograms of plastic from oceans and rivers, but millions of tons still enter ...

Boyan Slat, founder and CEO of The Ocean Cleanup, explains the nonprofit's mission to clean up floating plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. I'm an award-winning Video Producer and Host for ...

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 ...

Long Beach is continuing its efforts to reduce trash and debris that comes from the Los Angeles River into the city’s waterways and beaches. The City Council this week unanimously approved continuing ...

In the vast, swirling expanse of the North Pacific Ocean lies a phenomenon as intriguing as it is troubling – the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP). This colossal debris vortex stretching from ...

he Ocean Cleanup claims a record haul of plastic waste as its innovative technologies and strategies continue to make significant progress.

Kia donates two trucksto global partner The Ocean Cleanup to support river plastic removal operations in Guatemala Vehicles will help accelerate transport of intercepted waste from capture ...

The accumulated floating plastic known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is 620,000 square miles — nearly twice the size of Texas. One group is trying to clean up the more than 100,000 tons of ...

ALAMEDA, Calif. (KGO) -- Call it the world's biggest garbage dump: the swirling mess of plastic debris in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Now, there's an effort afoot to make it vanish, launching ...

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 ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, or GPGP for short, isn't exactly what you might have heard. It's not a floating garbage land-mass twice the size of Texas that you can settle, even though it kind of ...