First system to be tested at sea, hopes to help "Great Pacific Garbage Patch." The Ocean Cleanup, the Dutch foundation developing advanced technologies to rid the oceans of plastic, unveiled its North ...

The United Nations' lead agency on international development is partnering with Ocean Cleanup to address plastic waste in oceans and rivers around the world. The U.N. Development Programme and the ...

A young entrepreneur is working on a large-scale solution to cleaning most of the world’s ocean trash. Boyan Slat started The Ocean Cleanup project in his home country of the Netherlands when he was ...

A relatively uncharted island entirely made of trash, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is an enigma. Still, reducing its size is an even bigger mystery. The Ocean Cleanup is an organization using ...

An ambitious project to clean up the ocean's plastic pollution got underway over the weekend as members of The Ocean Cleanup project began towing their system out to sea. If it works as expected, they ...

Offshore vessel owner Maersk Supply Service, A.P. Moller – Maersk, and The Ocean Cleanup have agreed to extend their collaboration to complete the validation of the system by The Ocean Cleanup which ...

This moniker is used to describe the vast stretch of ocean from the west coast of North America to Japan that is crammed with an estimated 1.8 trillion pieces of trash, most of which are plastic. “I ...

The Ocean Cleanup developed technology to catch trash in rivers before it flows into the ocean. During a recent storm in L.A., it was wildly successful. When heavy rain fell in Los Angeles last ...

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 ...

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 ...

The atmospheric river storm hitting California this week presents a test for an experimental waste-capturing system that’s intended to keep plastic bottles, diapers and other trash from flowing into ...