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 ...

What’s the best way to get plastic out of the ocean? Two nonprofits take different approaches to the problem of removing the 24 billion pounds of plastic that flow into the ocean each year—and face ...

Los Angeles, California-Oct. 6, 2022-The Ballona Creek trash interceptor is positioned in the Ballona Creek in Playa del Rey area of Los Angeles on Oct. 6, 2021. The interceptor is a 2-year pilot ...

The path to innovation is not always a smooth, straight line. In some cases, it's U-shaped. In September, a 2,000-foot-long floating barrier, shaped like a U, was dispatched to the Great Pacific ...

The Ocean Cleanup device has been redesigned—and is almost ready to try again After its first voyage resulted in disappointment, Boyan Slat's team has made some major fixes. Now they're ready to try ...

A floating device designed to catch plastic waste has been redeployed in a second attempt to clean up a huge island of trash swirling in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii. A ship towed ...

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 ...

After a historic winter hit California with dozens of atmospheric rivers, the last line of defense protecting the Pacific from much of L.A.’s trash held strong. In the first storm season of a two-year ...

As an innovative solution to the alarming issue of plastic pollution in our oceans, the ocean cleanup drone has the potential to transform the way we handle waste. This remarkable machine is capable ...

Marine scientists are witnessing a technological revolution in ocean cleanup. Revolutionary systems are transforming how we tackle plastic pollution, from autonomous robots to artificial intelligence ...