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The Ocean Cleanup Is Starting, Aims To Cut Garbage Patch By 90% By 2040
A massive cleanup of plastic in the seas will begin in the Pacific Ocean, by way of Alameda, California. The Ocean Cleanup, an effort that's been five years in the making, plans to launch its beta ...
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Experts make critical breakthrough that could drastically impact efforts to remove dangerous materials from the ocean: 'Far more effective'
"With analytics, we can dramatically improve plastic removal efforts in the ocean," said study co-author Dick den Hertog of ...
CNET5y
The Ocean Cleanup expands to polluted rivers
Watch The Ocean Cleanup unveil its new automated system The Interceptor, which will be deployed to catch plastic debris in rivers before it reaches our oceans. I'm an award-winning Video Producer ...
Forbes2y
The Ocean Cleanup Readies Launch of System 03, With Three Times The Plastic-Collecting Power
Ten years since its founding in 2013, The Ocean Cleanup project remains ambitious. Founder and CEO Boyan Slat says a recent $25 million donation to the effort, the largest single contribution to ...
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Ocean Cleanup introduces technology that promises to clean up a third of the world's ocean trash in new TED Talk
As the founder and CEO of The Ocean Cleanup, Slat’s goal is to return our oceans to their original, clean state before 2040. To accomplish this, two things must be done. First: Stop more plastic ...
Fast Company5y
The Ocean Cleanup device is finally catching plastic
[Photo: The Ocean Cleanup] The device still needs more tweaking, the team says, to be able to retain plastic for long periods of time. Another redesign will follow. But the team is now one step ...
CNN5y
A floating device created to clean up plastic from the ocean is finally doing its job, organizers say
A huge trash-collecting system designed to clean up plastic floating in the Pacific Ocean is finally picking up plastic, its inventor announced Wednesday. The Netherlands-based nonprofit the Ocean ...
CBS News1y
Ocean cleanup group deploys barges to capture plastic in rivers
It's one of several barges belonging to The Ocean Cleanup, a Dutch nonprofit founded by 29-year-old Boyan Slat. "It's like a vacuum cleaner for the river," Slat said. The Ocean Cleanup is on a ...
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The Great Ocean Cleanup | WILD HOPE
Inventor Boyan Slat is on a mission to rid oceans of plastic. His team at The Ocean Cleanup designs and deploys systems that pull trash from the open ocean. Now, he’s stopping the pollution at ...
Inhabitat4y
The Ocean Cleanup launches sunglasses made from ocean plastic
But The Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit organization based in Holland, has diverted plastic from the ocean and recycled it into fashionable sunglasses that are an essential part of the funding for ...
Newsweek1mon
Cleaner Water: Kia and The Ocean Cleanup Partner to Green the Planet
Eileen Falkenberg-Hull leads the Autos team at Newsweek. She has written extensively about the auto industry for U.S. News & World Report, CarGurus, Trucks.com, AutomotiveMap, and American City ...
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Founder of The Ocean Cleanup is ridding the world of ocean plastic
ten years later he founded The Ocean Cleanup. NBC News' Gadi Schwartz speaks with Slat about his work and new ways to clean the ocean. Aug. 5, 2023 ...