The 19-year-old Boyan Slat announced his Ocean Cleanup Array concept is technically and financially viable to rid the ocean of plastic pollution. While diving in Greece as a 16-year-old, Boyan Slat ...

As if entangling wildlife and contaminating seafood weren’t enough, ocean plastic may be sabotaging the planet’s natural defenses against climate change. A 2023 study suggests microplastics may ...

A spectacular failure once made Boyan Slat a target of criticism. But the young Dutch founder, who wants to rid the Pacific ...

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 ...

Ocean Cleanup is a non-profit started in 2013 by then 18-year-old Boyan Slat of the Netherlands. He proposed and developed a number of skimmer-type devices to retrieve plastic floating in the ocean ...

ALAMEDA, Calif. (KGO) -- Call it the world's biggest garbage dump: the swirling mess of plastic debris in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Now, there's an effort afoot to make it vanish, launching ...

When Boyan Slat was 16-years-old he wondered about all of the trash in the ocean, ten years later he founded The Ocean Cleanup. NBC News' Gadi Schwartz speaks with ...

One of the biggest issues facing our oceans is plastic waste. Damage to economies, industry, and the environment is estimated to cost the world $2.5 trillion annually. But there's hope on the horizon.

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 ...

What’s the best way to get plastic out of the ocean? Two nonprofits take different approaches to the problem of removing the 24 billion pounds of plastic that flow into the ocean each year—and face ...