Young Dutch inventor Boyan Slat, right, unveils the Interceptor in Rotterdam, Netherlands, Saturday, Oct. 26, 2019. Slat is taking his effort to clean up floating plastic from the Pacific Ocean to ...

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 ...

Discover the alarming global crisis of plastic pollution and how it affects our oceans and rivers. This video explores the ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — After a series of setbacks, a system for catching plastic floating in the Pacific between California and Hawaii is now working, its Dutch inventor said Wednesday. Boyan ...

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 ...

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 ...

Boyan Slat, CEO of The Ocean Cleanup, talks about the new and improved river plastic Interceptors and the nonprofit's plans for building and deploying more of them around the world. I'm an ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The conversation around the climate crisis in the United States lacks substance and instead ...

More than 320 million metric tons of plastic are produced every year, and a lot of it accumulates in the oceans. At age 16, Dutch innovator Boyan Slat decided he wanted to tackle the problem. At age ...

Boyan Slat, the 25-year-old founder of Ocean Cleanup, recently announced that his famous invention was finally “harvesting” plastic from the sea. Some of the items recovered were a car tire, Styrofoam ...