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The massive plastic-cleaning device invented by a 24-year-old is headed out to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch - here's what the launch looked like
But it's also received significant criticism from members of the scientific community who study pla…
Kevin Loria
A 52-year-old man is swimming through the Pacific Garbage Patch. He's caught disgusting trash, including a toothbrush and a toilet seat.
The human race dumps about 8 million pounds of plastic trash into the oceans every year. For contex…
Hilary Brueck
A 22-year-old is moving ahead with a controversial plan to trap plastic floating in the great Pacific garbage patch
Slat says models of the new system show improved efficiency, but no tests have been run with an act…
Kevin Loria
The massive plastic-cleaning device invented by a 24-year-old to clean the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is finally being put to the test. Here's what it's up against.
More than 320 million metric tons of plastic are produced every year. "Our current estimates are th…
Kevin Loria
This 21-year-old invented a way to clean up the massive Pacific garbage patch
At an age when many are trying to figure out what they're going to do next with life, the Dutch inn…
The giant garbage vortex in the Pacific Ocean is over twice the size of Texas - here's what it looks like
Every little bit of plastic that gets tossed into the ocean or swept downstream out to sea either s…
Kevin Loria
This incredible animation shows what 80,000 tons of garbage in the ocean looks like
Half of the entire patch is made of plastic fishing nets, lines, and ropes, which come from intense…
Uma Sharma,Shira Polan
This guy plans to swim across the Pacific Ocean over the next 6 months
Lecomte has partnered with Seeker and Discovery on the project, which they have named simply, "The …
Kevin Loria
The 25-year-old trying to rid the world's oceans of plastic just created a floating garbage truck that collects trash from rivers
The Interceptor is designed to operate in almost any river, but it can be tailored to suit differen…
Aria Bendix
The Philippines is shipping 1,500 tons of trash back to Canada, the latest move in Southeast Asia's rebellion against Western garbage
The waste shipments had been in the Philippines since 2013 and 2014, according to the Guardian. Ten…
Beatrice Christofaro,Beatrice…
A giant ocean clean-up device meant to scoop plastic out of the Pacific has broken, and is being towed back to land
On December 8, Slat said plastic could be escaping from the device because the sea's current was wa…
Bill Bostock,Bill Bostock
The Frenchman racing to become the first person to swim across the Pacific is calling it quits, but he says he'll be back next year
Now heading towards Hawaii at an express clip much quicker than when Lecomte was swimming every day…
Hilary Brueck
Scientists Risk Their Lives To Uncover The Mysteries Of The Great White Triangle
To this day, scientists don't know why great whites migrate between the three points of the triangl…
Robert Ferris
Scientists Risk Their Lives To Uncover The Mysteries Of The Great White Triangle
To this day, scientists don't know why great whites migrate between the three points of the triangl…
Robert Ferris
3 seafoods that are only popular because of marketing schemes
Lobster was once considered low-class, Chilean sea bass is just a toothy cod, and calamari was used…
Grace Eliza Goodwin
2023 is officially the hottest year on record, thanks to climate change and El Niño
Perhaps one of the more concerning revelations was the fact that nearly half of 2023 had breached t…
Boyan Slat, founder of The Ocean Cleanup, to speak at the Business Insider Global Trends Festival 2020
Slat will be on stage at Business Insider's virtual event in October for his talk "The Largest Clea…
Business Insider
New research suggests we might be thinking about the ocean plastic problem all wrong - trash dumped from ships could be a major culprit
The authors noted that it's possible some of these Chinese-made bottles could have been exported to…