The Ocean Cleanup has come a long way since Boyan Slat conceived it just over a decade ago. A teenager at the time, Slat’s vision for ridding the ocean of the plastics that pollute our waterways ...

One of these nonprofit organizations is The Ocean Cleanup, which has been developing technologies to stop the flow of plastic pollution into our oceans. Since 2013, the Netherlands-based team of ...

Scientists use satellite data to find ocean zones where trash naturally gathers for easier, faster, and cleaner clean-up.

Scientists map ocean currents to trap floating trash and plastic debris, improving cleanup efforts of the Great Pacific ...

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 ...

The Ocean Cleanup project was created by Boyan Slat at the age of 22. $30 Million has been raised to fund his idea. It's set to help clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch located between Hawaii ...

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Created by Slat and developed alongside his team at the Ocean Cleanup, the project is set for deployment in the second quarter of 2016 off the Tsushima coast – an island located in the waters between ...

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“I don’t think anyone trying to pull plastic out of the ocean is also trying to kill neuston,” Helm tells The Scientist. But she describes what she sees as a reticence by certain cleanup initiatives ...

It's a very exciting time." The research paper was written in collaboration with the University of Hamburg and The Ocean Clean Up, a Netherlands-based non-profit organization developing ...

With plastic recovery operations now underway in the world’s marine garbage patches, scientists must contend with how little was known about the organisms living at the surface. Amanda was an ...