The once-child-wiz kid behind the Ocean Cleanup, Boyan Slat also invented a device for cleaning up rivers called the ...

Officials said the Ballona Creek Interceptor has already removed more than 200 tons of trash.

Dutch inventor, Boyan Slat is the founder of The Ocean Cleanup, a system that has focused on removing plastics from the world’s oceans. After a number of setbacks, earlier this month, Slat announced ...

Plastic is funneling into our oceans, but a boat is helping collect and consume trash before it even hits the sea.

Floating debris is funneled by a V-shaped boom toward a barge. A conveyor belt then lifts the trash from the water, and an ...

Guided by floating barriers, the Interceptor has already stopped more than 143,000lbs of rubbish from entering the Pacific from one LA river ...

Anytime it rains, trash comes flushing through storm drains and gutters, into rivers and downstream straight into the ocean and onto beaches. The picturesque beaches that Southern California is known ...

Scooping waste from a Malaysian river to stop it reaching the sea, a solar-powered barge named the “Interceptor” is the latest weapon in a global battle to rid the world’s waters of plastic. Trash is ...

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and Dutch non-profit organization The Ocean Cleanup inked an agreement to remove floating waste from the Pasig River. Signed this week, the ...