The Ocean Cleanup plans to use the donation from Airbnb cofounder Joe Gebbia to support the launch later this year of System 03, the largest iteration of its ocean cleaning system, targeting a ...

Back in August, the Ocean Cleanup Project returned to the waters of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch with a redesigned trash-collecting system that was its largest yet. This upsized approach ...

The Ocean Cleanup, brainchild of young Dutch entrepreneur Boyan Slat, was feted as the beginning of the end for the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Ten years from its inception, is it any closer to ...

Boyan Slat, founder and CEO of The Ocean Cleanup, explains the nonprofit's mission to clean up floating plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

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.

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

Why so many of us wanted to believe in an ocean cleanup system that just broke ‘It moves the proposed solution to ‘out there,’ where the trash is, rather than into our own lives, where the ...

The nonprofit group says its plastic pipe-and-screen system is capturing and holding a range of marine debris from microplastics to giant fishing nets in the Pacific Ocean. Next they will design a ...

The Ocean Cleanup, created by Dutch inventor Boyan Slat when he was 18, initially planned on using an autonomous floating system driven by wind, waves and currents to remove plastic.

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.

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 ...

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