The Ocean Cleanup has removed over 45 million kilograms of plastic from oceans and rivers, but millions of tons still enter ...

In 2013, when 18-year-old Dutch aerospace engineering student Boyan Slat dreamt up a solution to ocean plastics—and presented it in a TEDx Talk—could he have envisioned that, within hardly a decade’s ...

Hawaii Pacific University’s Center for Marine Debris Research Bounty Project has removed more than 185,000 pounds of derelict ...

For someone who gets violently seasick, Boyan Slat spends a lot of time thinking about the ocean. The Dutch inventor has designed the world’s first ocean plastic cleanup system but admits he won’t be ...

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 ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - An environmental campaign seeks to help keep our beach towns clean. The nonprofit organization, Plastic Ocean Project, launched its “Sustainable Summer” initiative in July.