The Ocean Cleanup device has been redesigned—and is almost ready to try again After its first voyage resulted in disappointment, Boyan Slat's team has made some major fixes. Now they're ready to ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is one of the most polluted areas of the ocean. 22-year-old Boyan Slat has a potential cleanup solution. The Ocean Cleanup uses a boom to capture plastic and keep ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Boyan Slat founded The Ocean Cleanup in 2013, when he was just 19. The idea is simple: floating barriers accumulate garbage that's traveling in natural ocean currents.

It's been six years since entrepreneur Boyan Slat began developing a system to rid the world's oceans of harmful plastic. In 2013, Slat founded The Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit that aims to remove ...