The Ocean Cleanup. But Slat says System 03 will be the blueprint for scaling toward a fleet of barriers, with a goal of removing 90% of floating ocean plastic by 2040.

The Ocean Cleanup's System 03 is the latest iteration of its oceangoing plastic-catching technology. It's operating in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, located hundreds of miles offshore between ...

Ships will likely be a major cost in the Ocean Cleanup's system 03 design. ( Supplied: The Ocean Cleanup ) But if Mr Slat's viral TEDx talk showed anything, it was that he is very good at selling ...

The Ocean Cleanup is a passive system that consists of a 2,000-foot floating boom made up of plastic piping four feet in diameter. Once deployed it will form into a broad U-shape.

Ocean cleanup technology creates an artificial coastline. The Ocean cleanup system consists of a 600-meter-long floater that sits at the surface of the water and a tapered 3-meter-deep skirt attached ...

The Ocean Cleanup Project first popped up back in 2013 with grand plans to clean plastic from the oceans using massive floating barriers, and the system has undergone a number of reinventions since.

The Ocean Cleanup. But he said the system is collecting all kinds and sizes of plastics, from medium-sized debris all the way down to microplastics as small as 1 millimeter.

Around six weeks have passed since the Ocean Cleanup Project installed its trash-catching system in the Pacific, and it hasn’t exactly been smooth sailing for the huge floating barrier so far.

The Rotterdam, Netherlands-based Ocean Cleanup announced Oct. 1 that it has successfully tested its redesigned plastic pipe-and-skirt system to act as a floating collection point for waste in the ...

The broken device is a curved, 2,000-foot-long plastic tube created by a foundation called The Ocean Cleanup. It’s intended to trap marine plastics bobbing within 10 or so feet of the ocean’s ...

The Ocean Cleanup launched its first ocean trash collector, System 001, in San Francisco Bay on Saturday (Sept. 8). (Image credit: Benjamin Von Wong/The Ocean Cleanup) ...

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