The Ocean Cleanup project's Boyan Slat has revealed a notable design improvement and set a Pacific deployment target for the first half of 2018, a full two years ahead of schedule. Young Dutch ...

Early next month, a 24-year-old entrepreneur from the Netherlands named Boyan Slat will launch an ambitious project in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch: On Sept. 8, crews will drag a 2,000-foot, ...

Click here if you are having trouble viewing the photo gallery and video on your mobile device. ALAMEDA — It’s launching time for The Ocean Cleanup, the ambitious effort to collect the massive vortex ...

Last Saturday, the nonprofit Ocean Cleanup dispatched a device to help clean up litter in the Pacific Ocean. NPR's Michel Martin talks with Boyan Slat, the young CEO who came up with the idea. There's ...

ALAMEDA (CBS SF) -- Already grappling with how to retain plastic it has collected at the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a cleanup rig had another setback over the weekend and will be returning to port ...

On a Wednesday afternoon in a sprawling lot on a former naval air station in Alameda, California, across the bay from San Francisco, workers are welding a massive black tube together. The tube–roughly ...

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LOS ANGELES — A floating device sent to corral a swirling island of trash between California and Hawaii has not swept up any plastic waste — but the young innovator behind the project said Monday that ...

Engineers set to sea Saturday to deploy a trash collection device to corral plastic litter floating between California and Hawaii in an attempt to clean up the world’s largest garbage patch in the ...

As if entangling wildlife and contaminating seafood weren’t enough, ocean plastic may be sabotaging the planet’s natural defenses against climate change. A 2023 study suggests microplastics may ...

More than 320 million metric tons of plastic are produced every year, and a lot of it accumulates in the oceans. At age 16, Dutch innovator Boyan Slat decided he wanted to tackle the problem. At age ...