SAN FRANCISCO – A 60-foot chunk of the Ocean Cleanup device, deployed with much fanfare in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in October, has broken off and the entire plastic collection system ...

A 2,000-foot-long system created to clean up plastic pollution in the Pacific Ocean is broken and being towed back to port for repair. The Ocean Cleanup System 001, a U-shaped floating barrier ...

For this second installment of the Sea Camp series, we explore the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. It's the largest of five ...

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Last month, the Ocean Cleanup foundation launched the world’s first ocean cleanup system out of San Francisco to take on the notorious “Great Pacific Garbage Patch,” a giant floating trash ...

A new test in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch will show if the Ocean Cleanup system, designed by young inventor Boyan Slat, really works.

Did you know that most of the discarded garbage ends up in the oceans, forming garbage patches? Environmentalists from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation British fund have even calculated that if garbage ...

In May 2017, The Ocean Cleanup raised $21.7 million for trials in the Pacific Ocean. A little over a year later, Slat's team set out to sea with its first 2,000-foot-long plastic-cleaning array ...

Slat estimates that if the Ocean Cleanup’s plan is successful, they will be able to clean up 50 percent of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in five years.

After years in development, the Ocean Cleanup arrived at the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in October last year with the intention of gathering up plastic waste. Sadly, things didn't go precisely to ...

Nonprofit environmental organization The Ocean Cleanup has announced that it's on track to eliminate the Great Pacific Garbage Patch by 2034. That is — if it has the necessary funds to do so. In ...

The Ocean Cleanup vessel is on its way to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch A new test in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch will show if the Ocean Cleanup system, designed by young inventor ...