ROTTERDAM, Netherlands — Dutch inventor Boyan Slat is widening his effort to clean up floating plastic from the Pacific Ocean by moving into rivers, too, using a new floating device to catch garbage ...

The Ocean Cleanup device has been redesigned—and is almost ready to try again After its first voyage resulted in disappointment, Boyan Slat's team has made some major fixes. Now they're ready to try ...

A young entrepreneur is working on a large-scale solution to cleaning most of the world’s ocean trash. Boyan Slat started The Ocean Cleanup project in his home country of the Netherlands when he was ...

Slat theorizes that if they repeat the 100,000 kg plastic haul 1,000 times, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch will be cleaned up. "Right now," he added, "we're scaling up to the next phase in our ...

A crew of engineers in the middle of the ocean will try to fix a device that was intended to clean the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, where an estimated 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic have coalesced ...

BOYAN SLAT, THE OCEAN CLEANUP CEO AND FOUNDER, SAYING: “So, we are here on board one of our interceptors, which is a solar-powered automated device, which we put in the mouth of rivers and this ...

Interceptor 007 is a not-so-secret agent of trash collection at the mouth of a Los Angeles waterway. It's one of several barges belonging to The Ocean Cleanup, a Dutch nonprofit founded by 29-year-old ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A floating device designed to catch plastic waste has been redeployed in second attempt to clean up a huge island of trash swirling in the Pacific Ocean between California and ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — A young Dutch ...

Booth is a reporter at TIME. Photo-Illustration by TIME (Source Image: Courtesy Boyan Slat) As if entangling wildlife and contaminating seafood weren’t enough, ocean plastic may be sabotaging the ...