BOYAN SLAT, THE OCEAN CLEANUP CEO AND FOUNDER, SAYING: “So, we are here on board one of our interceptors, which is a solar-powered automated device, which we put in the mouth of rivers and this ...

Interceptor 007 is a not-so-secret agent of trash collection at the mouth of a Los Angeles waterway. It’s one of several barges belonging to The Ocean Cleanup, a Dutch nonprofit founded by 29-year-old ...

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands — Dutch inventor Boyan Slat is widening his effort to clean up floating plastic from the Pacific Ocean by moving into rivers, too, using a new floating device to catch garbage ...

Black flies exploded into the air as plastic waste fell from bamboo conveyor belts into skips on a solar-powered barge attempting to remove rubbish from the main river of Thailand's capital Bangkok.

he Ocean Cleanup claims a record haul of plastic waste as its innovative technologies and strategies continue to make significant progress.

Marine biologist: “Everything we do from when we get up in the morning to when we go to bed connects us to coral reefs.” ...

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 ...

We’ve made a mess of the Earth’s oceans. That’s something Boyan Slat, founder and CEO of The Ocean Cleanup, has spent the better part of a decade trying to fix. It’s a massive problem — literally. The ...