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55 tons of ocean plastic collected from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch to be recycled into Kia’s electric vehicles!
Kia has already begun upcycling plastic in many car parts, such as the EV9 model which incorporates…
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is actually a unique ocean ecosystem teeming with sea creatures that cling to the plastic trash
A coauthor of a new study that found coastal species of sea life were living on plastic in the open…
Kelsey Vlamis  Â
A half-mile plastic-trapping device in the Pacific caught 64,000 pounds of trash - including a fridge, mannequin, and toilet seats
A new device built by the nonprofit The Ocean Cleanup brought back 64,000 pounds of plastic from th…
Aria Bendix  Â
A half-mile installation just took 20,000 pounds of plastic out of the Pacific - proof that ocean garbage can be cleaned
The Ocean Cleanup, the group behind the device, thinks 10 such installations could clean 50% of the…
Aria Bendix  Â
The nonprofit that partnered with Microsoft to clean up the ocean is now selling $200 sunglasses made from ocean plastic
In 2018, The Ocean Cleanup was a participant in Microsoft's annual hackathon, where volunteers work…
Mary Meisenzahl  Â
Microsoft teamed up with a nonprofit using autonomous 'interceptor' boats to clean up the ocean and is helping it identify trash with machine learning
In 2018, The Ocean Cleanup was a participant in Microsoft's annual hackathon, where volunteers work…
Mary Meisenzahl  Â
The massive plastic-cleaning device invented by a 25-year-old is finally catching trash in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
In June, The Ocean Cleanup launched a new version of the device, known as System 001/B. Once it was…
Aria Bendix  Â
More plastic pollution is swirling in the deep ocean than in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a new study has found
Microplastics aren't just a problem for marine life. They make their way into the food we eat and b…
Aylin Woodward  Â
A new version of the massive plastic cleanup device invented by a 24-year-old is returning to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
The first test will involve attaching a sea anchor that decelerates the speed of the system. If tha…
Aria Bendix  Â
The massive ocean cleanup device invented by a 24-year-old is running into problems in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Slat's 2,000-foot-long device, System 001, recently spent four weeks in the Great Pacific Garbage P…
Peter Kotecki,Peter Kotecki  Â
A device invented by a 25-year-old is finally catching trash in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. It hauled 60 bags to shore to turn into new products.
But one of the challenges in taking on this project, Slat said, is that plastic debris is often wea…
Aria Bendix,Aria Bendix  Â
The massive ocean cleanup device invented by a 24-year-old is still leaking plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
By the end of November, Slat's organization, The Ocean Cleanup, released an update saying they had …
Aria Bendix,Peter Kotecki,Peter Kotecki  Â
A 25-year-old's mission to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch relies on a giant plastic-cleaning device. Here's how it works.
To sweep the water for plastic, the system has to move, of course. But it's designed not to need an…
Aria Bendix  Â
What the creators of the giant plastic-cleaning system headed to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch say to critics who doubt them
According to some experts, like George Leonard, chief scientist at Ocean Conservancy, and Eben Schw…
Kevin Loria  Â
The massive plastic-cleaning device in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch probably won't hurt sea creatures - but there's still a big problem to sort out
More than eight weeks after Wilson was deployed in the Pacific Ocean, it began spilling the plastic…
Aria Bendix  Â
The massive ocean cleanup device invented by a 24-year-old broke down in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and returned to shore. Here's what went wrong.
In 2013, 18-year-old entrepreneur Boyan Slat set out to tackle this problem by launching The Ocean …
Aria Bendix,Aylin Woodward  Â
A 25-year-old's mission to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch has yielded a new discovery - and it means the plastic problem is even worse than we thought
Slat's solution is a floating, U-shaped array that captures plastic in its fold like a giant arm. T…
Aria Bendix  Â
The massive plastic-cleaning device invented by a 24-year-old is running into problems in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Take a look at its difficult journey.
But if all goes according to plan, the device could remove half the plastic in the Great Pacific Ga…
Peter Kotecki,Peter Kotecki,Aria Bendix  Â
A 24-year-old is going ahead with a controversial plan to trap plastic floating in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Some experts are worried.
Over the years, The Ocean Cleanup's plans have changed dramatically. Slat's original concept involv…