The system is the brainchild of Boyan Slat, founder of the nonprofit 'The Ocean Cleanup', and comprises a cork-based boom that trails a waste-scooping screen. Having addressed issues caused by the ...
Our oceans are teeming with garbage, but no collection of marine debris is quite as big as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a trash-filled vortex in the Pacific Ocean that's more than twice the size ...
As the policy director of the ocean conservation nonprofit 5Gyres.org, I can tell you that the problem of ocean plastic pollution is massive. In case you didn’t know, an ocean gyre is a rotating ...