Each year, 8 million tons of plastic — the equivalent of a garbage truck load every minute — is dumped into the ocean, according to the World Economic Forum. The Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit engineering ...
A project to clean up the world's ocean using a device designed to collect floating plastic debris encountered a major setback. Young Dutch inventor Boyan Slat came up with the Ocean Cleanup project ...
When Boyan Slat was 16, he went diving in Greece, and was shocked to see more plastic bags than fish. Seven years later, he’s raised more than $30 million to get rid of ocean plastic. Two-thirds of ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
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 ...
In 2013, 19-year-old inventor Boyan Slat made waves by designing an “Ocean Cleanup Array” which he claimed could remove 72.5 million tons of plastic from the world’s oceans. Although his idea received ...
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