Slat will be on stage at Business Insider's virtual event in October for his talk "The Largest Clea…

A new device built by the nonprofit The Ocean Cleanup brought back 64,000 pounds of plastic from th…

The Ocean Cleanup, the group behind the device, thinks 10 such installations could clean 50% of the…

Patagonia's mission is "we're in business to save the planet." Phil Graves will talk about the futu…

But one of the challenges in taking on this project, Slat said, is that plastic debris is often wea…

But if all goes according to plan, the device could remove half the plastic in the Great Pacific Ga…

More than eight weeks after Wilson was deployed in the Pacific Ocean, it began spilling the plastic…

The first test will involve attaching a sea anchor that decelerates the speed of the system. If tha…

Slat's solution is a floating, U-shaped array that captures plastic in its fold like a giant arm. T…

By the end of November, Slat's organization, The Ocean Cleanup, released an update saying they had …

To sweep the water for plastic, the system has to move, of course. But it's designed not to need an…

Slat's 2,000-foot-long device, System 001, recently spent four weeks in the Great Pacific Garbage P…

In June, The Ocean Cleanup launched a new version of the device, known as System 001/B. Once it was…

In 2013, 18-year-old entrepreneur Boyan Slat set out to tackle this problem by launching The Ocean …

On December 8, Slat said plastic could be escaping from the device because the sea's current was wa…

According to some experts, like George Leonard, chief scientist at Ocean Conservancy, and Eben Schw…

The Interceptor is designed to operate in almost any river, but it can be tailored to suit differen…

The Ocean Cleanup will use giant floating pipes driven by the wind, waves and currents to cleanup t…

But it's also received significant criticism from members of the scientific community who study pla…

More than 320 million metric tons of plastic are produced every year. "Our current estimates are th…