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 ...

The celebration brought together over 180 partners, supporters, executives, and community leaders to recognize one of the largest verified ocean cleanup achievements in history. Wave Browser, an ocean ...

A collaboration between The Ocean Cleanup and Amazon Web Services (AWS) will leverage advanced artificial intelligence, machine learning, and cloud computing capabilities to clean the Great Pacific ...

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.

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 ...

More than 90 percent of the plastics in the GPGP are microplastics. Azure waves lapping against huge piles of built-up junk. Garbage mountains rising above the sea. A thick crust of filth coating the ...

You've probably seen the photos: a sea turtle trapped in fishing line, a plastic bottle wedged in coral, and shorelines littered with packaging. That's not some distant problem. The same waste tossed ...

The Ocean Cleanup is dedicated to removing plastic from the world's oceans. It's a formidable task: National Geographic estimates that 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic, the equivalent of 269,000 tons, ...

TAMPA, Fla. and STAMFORD, Conn., April 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ - As part of its ongoing commitment to helping advance a circular economy, Primo Brands Corporation (PRMB), a leading branded beverage ...

The Ocean Cleanup, the Netherlands-based effort to collect marine plastics from the Pacific Ocean's "garbage patch," makes a lot of news with the large amount of material it has managed to scoop up ...

Two plastic clean-up and recycling organisations are contesting a legal case over plastic waste that was allegedly dumped instead of recycled in Indonesia. Kelly claims he has found thousands of bags ...