The Ocean Cleanup team has been researching and testing the pipe for the past five years. In 2013, the project raised over $2 million through crowdfunding and has since raised over $30 million.

The ocean’s plastic trash problem often starts in rivers: Every year, as much as 2.4 million metric tons of plastic flows from rivers to the sea, the nonprofit estimates. Most of that trash ...

Cleaning up the Great Pacific garbage patch 01:38. The accumulated floating plastic known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is 620,000 square miles — nearly twice the size of Texas. One group ...

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

The Ocean Cleanup will be skimming up plastic that humanity has dumped in the oceans. They'll start out with System 001, with plans for a fleet of 60 that will remove an estimated 14,000 tons per ...

Slat estimates that if the Ocean Cleanup’s plan is successful, they will be able to clean up 50 percent of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in five years.

In a study published in Science of the Total Environment this week, researchers at the University of Exeter looked at the ability of floating ocean clean-up tech to actually clean up the ocean ...

Cleaning up plastic in the ocean might seem indisputably like a good idea. After all, the oceans make up more than 70% of our planet, and we have basically trashed them. The world dumps a jaw ...