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 ...

In the next month or so, Kia will begin offering an accessory for its EV3 subcompact electric crossover that will be made of recycled plastic scooped out of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. That's the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The Ocean Cleanup is dedicated to removing plastic from the world's ...

In the northern Pacific Ocean, two sky-blue ships are sailing parallel to one another, several hundred meters apart. Pulled behind them is a giant U-shaped barrier, which almost looks like a fishing ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Environmental organization The Ocean Cleanup has denied accusations that it staged a massive plastic removal operation ...

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 ...

Want to help in the fight against ocean plastic pollution, which affects more than 1,000 marine species, and costs billions in environmental and economic damage? Now you can help reduce ocean plastic ...

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 ...