One of the most inspiring news stories in the past year is the recent launch of the Great Ocean Cleanup, an ambitious project led by 24-year-old Dutch inventor Boyan Slat. He started his quest in ...

In the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, The Ocean Cleanup team executed 112 trash extractions and have found that cleaning up the oceanic blight will come at a price tag of about $7 billion -- less ...

Discover the advanced technologies and groundbreaking strategies aiming to clean ocean garbage and eliminate the Great ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is one of the most polluted areas of the ocean. 22-year-old Boyan Slat has a potential cleanup solution. The Ocean Cleanup uses a boom to capture plastic and keep ...

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The Ocean Cleanup will use giant floating pipes driven by the wind, waves and currents to cleanup the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, located between Hawaii and California.

In 2013, Slat founded The Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit that aims to remove plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a trash-filled vortex in the Pacific Ocean that's more than twice the size of ...

More than six years after the 24-year-old launched The Ocean Cleanup, the organization is still struggling to clean the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a trash-filled vortex that's more than twice ...