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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

OACM expands across five continents with a tourism-driven ocean cleanup model, replacing failing global preservation funding ...

SEOUL, South Korea, Aug. 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Kia plans to use recycled plastic from a 55-ton haul recently reclaimed from the Pacific Ocean in its new EV models. The record-breaking amount of ...

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 ...

In the vast, swirling expanse of the North Pacific Ocean lies a phenomenon as intriguing as it is troubling – the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP). This colossal debris vortex stretching from ...

More than 90 percent of the plastics in the GPGP are microplastics. Azure waves lapping against huge piles of built-up junk. Garbage mountains rising above the sea. A thick crust of filth coating the ...

A collaboration between The Ocean Cleanup and Amazon Web Services (AWS) will leverage advanced artificial intelligence, machine learning, and cloud computing capabilities to clean the Great Pacific ...

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 ...

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 ...