Ocean Cleanup now tackles those 1% of rivers to capture the plastic before it reaches oceans. ... Reading these humanitarian quotes will leave you feeling inspired on World Humanitarian Day ...

The Ocean Cleanup team has been researching and testing the pipe for the past five years. In 2013, the project raised over $2 million through crowdfunding and has since raised over $30 million.

The ocean’s plastic trash problem often starts in rivers: Every year, as much as 2.4 million metric tons of plastic flows from rivers to the sea, the nonprofit estimates. Most of that trash ...

Cat Clean Ocean isn't too heavy-handed in its messaging around this, mind - when you first deposit a particular piece of trash, you'll get a small bit of information that tells you what it is and ...

UPDATE: The Ocean Cleanup released a feasibility study in June 2014 that attempted to address many of the concerns we had below. You can read our updated technical review here. Boyan Slat's plan to ...

Cleaning up plastic in the ocean might seem indisputably like a good idea. After all, the oceans make up more than 70% of our planet, and we have basically trashed them. The world dumps a jaw ...

Imagine cleaning up the ocean by controlling a robot boat with your iPhone! According to Gabriella Levine, a member of the Scoutbots community, ...

Dutch university dropout Boyan Slat, who founded the The Ocean Cleanup, poses for a portrait next to a pile of plastic garbage prior to a press presentation in Utrecht, Netherlands, Thursday, May ...

In a study published in Science of the Total Environment this week, researchers at the University of Exeter looked at the ability of floating ocean clean-up tech to actually clean up the ocean ...

Cleaning up the Great Pacific garbage patch 01:38. The accumulated floating plastic known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is 620,000 square miles — nearly twice the size of Texas. One group ...

A 2,000 foot-long floating pipe nicknamed Wilson is about to start its mission to collect all the plastic in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Last month, the Ocean Cleanup foundation launched the ...