World’s largest ocean vacuum cleaner goes viral, aims to remove 90% of ocean plastic by 2040

An old video of a floating system cleaning ocean plastic is trending again, sparking interest in the initiative’s latest ...
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The Ocean Cleanup expands to tackling plastic pollution in rivers — here's why

Boyan Slat made waves when he was just a teenager with an audacious dream to rid the world’s oceans of plastic waste. Slat’s first TEDx Talk went viral in 2012, as the founder and CEO of The Ocean ...

Boyan Slat: A Dutch teen who turned a school project into a mission to remove 90% of ocean plastic by 2040

Boyan Slat is a Dutch inventor and entrepreneur, born on 27th July 1994. He is the founder of a non-profit organization known ...
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Dutch Engineers Deploy 2.2km Device to Clean Great Pacific Garbage Patch

In October 2019, The Ocean Cleanup project made headlines around the world when its prototype vessel started collecting plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This launch followed a year of ...
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Great Pacific Garbage Patch could be eliminated in 10 years, cleanup organization says

3:54 p.m. Sept. 7, 2024: A previous version of this article said that Ocean Cleanup vessels had removed more than a million tons of trash in three years. The amount was a million pounds. After three ...