The man who wants to stop trash from flowing into the ocean

Boyan Slat has a plan to rid the ocean of plastic pollution, this coming El Niño could be a monster and more big stories ...

This Garbage Barge Might Be Southern California’s Most Impressive Boat

The Ocean Cleanup's latest effort will help Los Angeles clean its rivers and beaches ahead of the 2028 Olympics ...

L.A.'s ultra-urban rivers wash tons of trash out to sea. There's a plan to change that before the Olympics

'Trash interceptors' will be installed in the L.A. and San Gabriel rivers to stop tons of plastic from reaching the ocean ...
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The Ocean Cleanup expands to tackling plastic pollution in rivers — here's why

Boyan Slat made waves when he was just a teenager with an audacious dream to rid the world’s oceans of plastic waste. Slat’s first TEDx Talk went viral in 2012, as the founder and CEO of The Ocean ...

Meet Boyan Slat: This 16-year-old built a 'trash-eating robot' to clean the world’s oceans

Dutch inventor Boyan Slat has developed a system that uses ocean currents to collect plastic waste. Experts consider this ...

San Gabriel River, LA River will get trash interceptors to combat ocean and beach pollution

Could this technology finally be a solution for the plastic problem reaching the ocean, here and around the world?
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AI Joins the Cleanup Crew: The Ocean Cleanup and AWS Tackle Ocean Plastic

AI-powered detection systems from Amazon Web Services will help The Ocean Cleanup pinpoint plastic hotspots and steer vessels to the most effective collection zones. Courtesy The Ocean Cleanup The ...
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Ocean Cleanup Needs to Clean Up Its Hype

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 ...