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 its ...

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 ...

Nokia has unveiled plans to deploy private wireless connectivity, network Edge equipment, and analytics for The Ocean Cleanup project. The vendor announced the plans last week as part of efforts to ...

In a mission to clean up trash floating in the ocean, environmentalists pulled 40 tons of abandoned fishing nets this month from an area known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Mariners on a ...

In October 2019, The Ocean Cleanup project made headlines around the world when its prototype vessel started collecting plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This launch followed a year of ...

Close to 2 million metric tons of plastic enters the oceans every year from beaches and waterways, according to The Ocean Cleanup Project. Much of that plastic is single-use beverage bottles, cups, ...