The Ocean Cleanup aims to be a temporary effort, with the ambition to reduce floating ocean plastic pollution by 90% by 2040. We will cease to exist once our mission of clean oceans has been achieved.

The Ocean Cleanup now tackles those 1% of rivers to capture the plastic before it reaches the oceans. “It’s not a replacement for the slow but important work that’s being done to fix a ...

Ocean plastic collected by System 02 is hauled onto the deck of a ship. The Ocean Cleanup. Ten years since its founding in 2013, The Ocean Cleanup project remains ambitious.

The Ocean Cleanup is on a mission to collect 90% of floating plastic pollution, including cleaning up the Great Pacific garbage patch, a collection of plastic debris and trash twice the size of Texas.

The Ocean Cleanup crew sorts through plastic on a ship deck after an extraction. Boyan said the system has so far cleaned up almost 200,000 kilograms (440,000 lbs) of ocean plastic.

One group is trying to clean up the more than 100,000 tons of garbage, one football field of trash every five seconds. Since 2019, The Ocean Cleanup has been collecting the floating plastics for ...

Founded by then-18-year-old Boyan Slat in 2013, The Ocean Cleanup has been working on innovative ways to solve the problem of ocean plastic. Their goal is to clean up plastic from the ocean and ...

Nanoplastics—particles smaller than a human hair—can pass through cell walls and enter the food web. New research suggest 27 ...

Scientists found invisible plastic pollution across the North Atlantic Ocean. These particles harm both wildlife and humans.

Plastic pollution tends to float near the surface and build up in large, rotating ocean currents known as gyres. The ...

The Ocean Cleanup crew sorts through plastic on a ship deck after an extraction. Boyan said the system has so far cleaned up almost 200,000 kilograms (440,000 lbs) of ocean plastic.