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SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, September 8, 2018 – The Ocean Cleanup Launched System 001 into the Great Pacific Garbage Patch from San Francisco - Photo: Pierre AUGIER for The OCEAN CLEANUP

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Press Releases

  • 19 November 2024 The Ocean Cleanup: Nearly five-fold increase in North Pacific Garbage Patch plastic fragments, seven-year study reveals
  • 6 September 2024 The Great Pacific Garbage Patch can be Cleaned for $7.5 Billion
  • 17 June 2024 The Ocean Cleanup and Coldplay Announce Limited Edition LP Made Using Recycled River Plastic
  • 23 May 2024 The Ocean Cleanup to Complete 100th Extraction Live From the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
  • 22 April 2024 The Ocean Cleanup Breaks 10,000,000 KG Barrier
  • 26 March 2024 The Ocean Cleanup, Together With Partners, Celebrates the Official Deployment of Its Cleanup Technology in Thailand for the First Time
  • 27 November 2023 Malaysia and The Ocean Cleanup Extend Cooperation
  • 20 November 2023 Maersk Supply Service and related parties extend their support to The Ocean Cleanup
  • 14 June 2023 Interceptor Barricade Makes Promising Start in Guatemala ahead of First Seasonal Heavy Floods
  • 15 May 2023 60 Leading Innovators Against Plastic Pollution Call for a Pragmatic and Inclusive Global Plastics Treaty
  • 12 May 2023 The Ocean Cleanup Announces New Interceptor for Cisadane River, Indonesia
  • 8 March 2023 The Ocean Cleanup and Municipality of Guatemala City Agree Cooperation Agreement to Tackle Plastic Pollution in Rivers
  • 9 February 2023 UNDP and The Ocean Cleanup Team up to Tackle Plastic Pollution
  • 3 February 2023 Airbnb and Samara Co-Founder Joe Gebbia Donates $25 Million to The Ocean Cleanup
  • 14 November 2022 Indonesia Enters New Agreement With the Netherlands and the Ocean Cleanup to Reduce Marine Debris From Rivers
  • 1 September 2022 Over 75% Of Plastic in Great Pacific Garbage Patch Originates From Fishing
  • 28 April 2022 The Ocean Cleanup and Kia announce Global Partnership
  • 11 January 2022 The Coca-Cola Company and The Ocean Cleanup Join Forces in Vietnam to Tackle Plastic Pollution
  • 20 October 2021 The Ocean Cleanup Proves Viability of Technology with System 002; Removal of Plastic from Great Pacific Garbage Patch to Begin Immediately
  • 2 June 2021 The Ocean Cleanup and The Coca-Cola Company Announce Partnership
  • 30 April 2021 1000 Rivers Emit Nearly 80% of Riverine Plastic Pollution into Worlds Oceans, Newly Published Research Shows
  • 25 March 2021 Coldplay Adopts Interceptor to Join The Ocean Cleanup Mission
  • 13 January 2021 The Ocean Cleanup, A.P. Moller – Maersk Extend Relationship with New Three-Year Partnership
  • 10 December 2020 The Ocean Cleanup Prepares for Series Production of Interceptor – Partners with Konecranes
  • 24 October 2020 The Ocean Cleanup Introduces First Product Made with Ocean Plastic Pollution
  • 7 May 2020 The Ocean Cleanup Wins $1M Award from Benioff Ocean Initative to Combat River Plastic Waste in Jamaica
  • 12 December 2019 The Ocean Cleanup Completes Mission One in Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Announces Plans to Make Products from Plastic Catch
  • 26 October 2019 The Ocean Cleanup Unveils Plan to Address the Main Source of Ocean Plastic Pollution: Rivers
  • 2 October 2019 The Ocean Cleanup Successfully Catches Plastic in Great Pacific Garbage Patch
  • 12 September 2019 New Understanding on Whereabouts of Missing Ocean Plastic
  • 27 August 2019 The Ocean Cleanup is awarded Macquarie 50th Anniversary Award
  • 8 September 2018 The World’s First Ocean Cleanup System Launched from San Francisco
  • 22 March 2018 Great Pacific Garbage Patch Growing Rapidly, Study Shows
  • 21 December 2017 Research Shows How Plastic at Sea Turns into Toxic Fish Food
  • 7 June 2017 First Estimate to Quantify Global Plastic Input from Rivers into Oceans
  • 11 May 2017 The Ocean Cleanup Announces Pacific Cleanup to Start in 2018
  • 3 May 2017 The Ocean Cleanup Raises 21.7 Million USD in Donations to Start Pacific Cleanup Trials
  • 3 October 2016 Ocean Plastic Pollution Worse Than Expected
  • 22 June 2016 The Ocean Cleanup Unveils First Prototype
  • 8 June 2016 The Ocean Cleanup Secures Full Funding For Prototype
  • 23 August 2015 The Ocean Cleanup Prepares For 2020 Pacific Cleanup, Successfully Completes Mega Expedition Reconnaissance Mission
  • 31 July 2015 The Ocean Cleanup Prepares For Pacific Cleanup, Embarks On Largest Reasearch Expedition In History
  • 20 June 2015 World’s First Ocean Cleaning System To Be Deployed In 2016
  • 20 April 2015 The Ocean Cleanup Launches Mega Expedition
  • 15 September 2014 Crowd Funding Campaign The Ocean Cleanup Successfully Completed
  • 3 June 2014 19-Year-Old Invents Feasibile Solution To Cleanup Ocean Garbage Patches

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A selection of high resolution material is available for editorial use. Please credit with ‘The Ocean Cleanup’ unless otherwise stated under the file.

  • System03 Full Deployment
  • Boyan Slat on board Interceptor 002 in Klang River, Malaysia
  • Catch being sorted and stored on deck after the last trip of System 002. Next trip will be start of System 03.
  • Excavators removing trash from the Interceptor Barricade in Guatemala, Rio Las Vacas (July 2023)
  • Boyan Slat - The Next Phase - May 11th
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Featured Media Coverage

  • 7 May 2025 N News Naver EU to discuss measures to combat marine plastic pollution at the 2025 Hour Ocean Conference
  • 22 April 2025 KTLA Earth Day 2025
  • 18 April 2025 AP News Primo Brands Partners with The Ocean Cleanup to Champion Cleaner Waterways
  • 15 April 2025 Newsweek Cleaner Water: Kia and The Ocean Cleanup Partner to Green the Planet
  • 5 April 2025 The Cool Down Experts stunned by whale’s stomach contents after being washed ashore: ‘Challenging … for a number of reasons’
  • 5 April 2025 News18 This Dutch Man Built A Robot At 18 That Eats Trash To Save Oceans
  • 28 March 2025 Das Magazin Das Magazin: Ein Meer von Plastik (und was sich dagegen tun lässt)
  • 25 March 2025 Britannica How to clean up Earth’s oceans
  • 24 March 2025 Earth.com Ocean currents may soon clean up waste, thanks to space tech
  • 19 March 2025 Medium The Detrimental Impact of Plastic on Ocean Life: A Comprehensive Overview
  • 12 March 2025 La Prensa Proyecto ‘7 cuencas’: interceptores en 7 ríos para rescatar la Bahía de Panamá
  • 12 March 2025 The Standard The worst man-made environmental disasters: from Exxon Valdez to Fukushima and beyond
  • 4 March 2025 AP News 22nd Annual San Francisco International Ocean Film Festival April 11 – 13 Announces Official Selections
  • 28 February 2025 The Cool Down Local man reveals why beloved fish has disappeared from major river: ‘So rare’
  • 25 February 2025 The Independent Singapore Nature reclaims Klang River as otters make a joyful comeback
  • 10 February 2025 the Sun gov’t considers national law to tackle plastic waste pollution
  • 9 February 2025 El Economista The 5 islands of shame that accumulate tons of plastic and are equivalent to a third of the European continent
  • 28 January 2025 Medium SPO Spotlight: GAIA
  • 24 January 2025 Ethic Cuanto más tiempo permanece un plástico en el medio ambiente, más dañino se vuelve
  • 23 January 2025 Illuminem TOP 10 Most-Read Thought Leaders of 2024 in Environmental Sustainability
  • 20 January 2025 MONOist What should manufacturers do for sustainability?
  • 16 January 2025 Nokia The Ocean Cleanup, Nokia Private Wireless and MCS unite to clean the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
  • 14 January 2025 SoFi S&P 500 Companies Helping Clean the Oceans
  • 7 January 2025 EXPRESS The incredible garbage island three times the size of France floating in the Pacific
  • 26 December 2024 Techcratic Sustainable Tech Trends to Watch in 2025
  • 21 November 2024 The Gleaner - Jamaica Kingston Harbour Clean-Up Project removes trash surrounding mangrove forests
  • 16 November 2024 MSN Kia makes exciting announcement about new vehicle accessory made from trash: ‘Proud to see tangible progress made’
  • 12 November 2024 TIME TIME100 Climate 2024: Boyan Slat
  • 15 September 2024 Yahoo!News Cleanup Group Says It’s on Track to Eliminate the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
  • 17 June 2024 Rolling Stone Coldplay to Release ‘Moon Music’ Album With ‘New Sustainability Standards’
  • 17 June 2024 The Guardian Coldplay: vinyl copies of new album Moon Music will be made from old plastic bottles
  • 29 May 2024 NU.nl The Ocean Cleanup haalt honderdste lading afval uit Stille Oceaan
  • 15 May 2024 ABC Australia Boyan Slat on ambition, obsession and striving for the impossible
  • 16 April 2024 PBS Cleaning Up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (With A Gigantic Net) | A Brief History of the Future
  • 16 January 2024 BBC Visualising the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
  • 22 November 2023 KCAL News Auto maker partners with environmental group to use recycled plastics: On Your Side
  • 11 October 2023 The Economist Who is polluting the ocean with plastic?
  • 18 September 2023 The Inertia L.A. County Installed a Massive Trash Interceptor; Could This Be Our Post-Rain Solution?
  • 2 September 2023 Jovem Pan Empresa pretende limpar ao menos 90% do lixo dos oceanos
  • 28 August 2023 CNN Oceans Polluted With Plastic
  • 21 August 2023 The World Cleaning up the Pacific Garbage Patch — one trawler at a time
  • 16 August 2023 Good Morning America Ocean cleanup group removes record 25,000 pounds of trash from Great Pacific Garbage Patch in one extraction
  • 6 August 2023 Le Monde Du Guatemala au Honduras, le fleuve Motagua charrie des milliers de tonnes de plastique
  • 5 August 2023 NBC News Founder of The Ocean Cleanup is ridding the world of ocean plastic
  • 4 August 2023 Huffington Post As Climate Fears Grow, Here’s A Reminder Of How Humans Can Actually Help The Planet
  • 11 July 2023 Prensa Libre Río Las Vacas: La barricada interceptora de The Ocean Cleanup extrae el equivalente a mil camiones de plásticos
  • 16 June 2023 Prensa Libre Río Las Vacas: Así funciona el sorprendente Interceptor 006 que ha logrado detener y extraer montañas de basura en Guatemal
  • 25 May 2023 The New York Times Humanity Is Addicted to Plastic, but We Can Still Keep It Out of Our Oceans
  • 15 May 2023 Forbes New Innovation Alliance Calls For Pragmatic Global Plastics Treaty
  • 11 May 2023 Los Angeles Times 77 tons less trash made it into the ocean thanks to this experimental L.A. County device
  • 18 April 2023 CNN The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now so huge and permanent that a coastal ecosystem is thriving on it, scientists say
  • 17 April 2023 NPR This floating ocean garbage is home to a surprising amount of life from the coasts
  • 28 March 2023 Mashable Plastic pollution is clogging a river in Guatemala. Can we ever clean it?
  • 21 March 2023 LA Times Trash interceptor weathers the storms, sparing Pacific from thousands of pounds of garbage
  • 12 March 2023 SXSW Featured Session of SXSW 2023: The Largest Cleanup in History
  • 27 February 2023 BBC Ocean plastic: How tech is being used to clean up waste problem
  • 15 February 2023 Forbes The Ocean Cleanup Readies Launch of System 03, With Three Times The Plastic-Collecting
  • 2 February 2023 Fortune Airbnb’s cofounder just donated $25 million to get plastic out of the ocean and tackle the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
  • 23 January 2023 Nature Boyan Slat founded and operates a business that seeks to reduce ocean plastic pollution by 90%
  • 5 January 2023 LA Times Storm is an ‘extreme test’ of waste capture system protecting the Pacific from L.A. runoff
  • 4 January 2023 ABC7 LA County using Dutch nonprofit’s device to keep trash out of the Pacific Ocean
  • 4 January 2023 Fast Company In L.A., this sleek barrier kept 35,000 pounds of trash out of the ocean
  • 11 November 2022 BBC Business Daily Meets: Boyan Slat
  • 2 September 2022 Science Alert Much of The Great Pacific Garbage Patch’s Plastic Comes From These 5 Countries
  • 1 September 2022 Nature Ocean ‘garbage patch’ is filled with fishing gear from just a few places
  • 3 August 2022 CNBC How three companies are cleaning up the world’s plastic-choked rivers
  • 9 June 2022 Reuters Cleanup crews trap plastic on Guatemalan river to protect ocean
  • 8 June 2022 The Washington Post Activists try giant screen to clean up Guatemalan river
  • 29 April 2022 Zigwheels Kia partners with The Ocean Cleanup for solutions to plastic pollution
  • 23 February 2022 CNET The Ocean Cleanup Now Offers More River Interceptors
  • 16 February 2022 Newsweek Ocean cleanup accused of staging removal after plastic looked too clean
  • 2 February 2022 CNN CNN Meio Dia – 2 de fevereiro de 2022 (at 2:42:10)
  • 11 November 2021 Pioneers Post Turn off the tap! The river robots that fight ocean plastic
  • 11 November 2021 Elmundo Boyan Slat, el don Quijote de La Mancha (oceánica)
  • 2 November 2021 CNET The Ocean Cleanup Begins Cleaning the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
  • 29 October 2021 USA Today They pulled 63,000 pounds of trash from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, but that’s just the start
  • 20 October 2021 Global News Cleanup crews return to B.C. marking ‘major milestone’ in mission to rid oceans of trash
  • 15 October 2021 UNILAD Ocean Cleanup Extracts 20,000 Pounds Of Rubbish From Pacific Garbage Patch
  • 15 October 2021 Business Insider A half-mile installation just took 20,000 pounds of plastic out of the Pacific – proof that ocean garbage can be cleaned
  • 13 October 2021 Oils & Fats International Maersk partnership announces promising results from HVO trial
  • 9 September 2021 Global News Ocean cleanup crew return to Victoria with 8 tonnes of plastic pollution
  • 22 June 2021 PADI PADI and The Ocean Cleanup Join Forces to Tackle Oceans Plastic
  • 8 June 2021 CNET Floating trash collectors are stopping garbage from reaching the ocean
  • 2 June 2021 Forbes The Coca-Cola Company And The Ocean Cleanup Join Forces To Clean Up 15 Of The World’s Most Polluting Rivers Of Plastic Waste
  • 4 May 2021 Yahoo Thousands of rivers (not just 10) are causing most global plastic pollution, study finds
  • 1 May 2021 BBC Plastic pollution: ‘It’s not 10 rivers, it’s 1,000’
  • 30 April 2021 National Geographic Plastic Gets to the Oceans Through Over 1,000 rivers
  • 25 October 2020 New Atlas [The] Ocean Cleanup sunglasses debuts its first Sunglasses made from Plastic Waste
  • 24 October 2020 Fast Company Garbage has never looked as cool as these Pacific Garbage Patch sunglasses
  • 24 October 2020 CNET The Ocean Cleanup’s Boyan Slat shows off new shades made from ocean plastic
  • 2 July 2020 Diplomat Magazine Spanish Embassy candidate Wins 2020 FPdGi International Award
  • 14 May 2020 Forbes How The Ocean Cleanup Plans To Work With Brands To Solve The Problem Of Plastic
  • 30 April 2020 The economist How to stop plastic getting into the ocean
  • 29 January 2020 My TF1 Quotidien deuxieme partie du 29 janvier 2020 avec Vincent Dedienne, Catherine Frot et Boyan Slat
  • 21 January 2020 Adweek Why You Should Think Irrationally in 2020 Like These Brands Did
  • 13 January 2020 Weforum This is how The Ocean Cleanup’s mission to clear the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is going
  • 15 December 2019 CBS [The] Ocean Cleanup Finishes 1st Round Of Great Pacific Garbage Patch Project
  • 13 December 2019 CNET The Ocean Cleanup celebrates first haul of plastic from the Great Pacific garbage patch
  • 2 November 2019 NowThis Meet Boyan Slat, Founder of The Ocean Cleanup Project
  • 28 October 2019 La Vanguardia Interceptor: solución para que los ríos no llenen los mares de plásticos
  • 27 October 2019 Bild Ocean Cleanup sagt Plastik in 1000 Flüssen den Kampf an
  • 26 October 2019 Fast Company The Ocean Cleanup project is now cleaning plastic out of rivers to stop it from getting to the ocean
  • 26 October 2019 Bloomberg The Ocean Cleanup Unveils New Device
  • 26 October 2019 CNET Boyan Slat of The Ocean Cleanup talks up his latest invention, The Interceptor
  • 3 October 2019 CNN A floating device created to clean up plastic from the ocean is finally doing its job, organizers say
  • 3 October 2019 The Guardian Ocean cleanup device successfully collects plastic for first time
  • 2 October 2019 NOS Nieuwe plasticvanger werkt een stuk beter, zegt Ocean Cleanup
  • 2 October 2019 Bild Ocean Cleanup fischt jetzt Plastik aus dem Meer
  • 2 October 2019 Forbes The Ocean Cleanup Is Capturing Plastic, Prepping A Larger Trash-Collecting System
  • 2 October 2019 Fast Company The Ocean Cleanup device is finally catching plastic
  • 16 September 2019 The New Yorker Where does all the plastic go?
  • 12 September 2019 Business Insider A 25-year-old’s mission to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch has yielded a new discovery — and it means the plastic problem is even worse than we thought
  • 10 September 2019 UN Environment Programme Boyan Slat: Dutch engineer-turned-cleaner puts faith in humanity’s ‘better angels’
  • 16 August 2019 Forbes The Ocean Cleanup Has Good News, Hopes To Resume Plastic Cleanup Soon
  • 4 February 2019 The New Yorker A Grand Plan to Clean the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
  • 11 January 2019 Forbes Founder Of Ocean Cleanup Vows Return, Says Failure Talk Is ‘Rubbish’
  • 16 December 2018 CBS 60 minutes – Cleaning up the Plastic in the Ocean
  • 14 October 2018 vpro documentary Boyan Slat’s Plastic Hunt – Documentary
  • 18 September 2018 Wired Marc Benioff Bets on Cleanup Tech for Ocean Trash
  • 16 September 2018 Business Insider What the creators of the giant plastic-cleaning system headed to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch say to critics who doubt them
  • 10 September 2018 Business Insider The massive plastic-cleaning device invented by a 24-year-old is headed out to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch — here’s what the launch looked like
  • 10 September 2018 CNET The Ocean Cleanup launches its plastic collecting system
  • 9 September 2018 USA Today It took 5 years, now the Ocean Cleanup system is heading to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
  • 7 September 2018 Fast Company The Ocean Cleanup vessel is on its way to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
  • 7 September 2018 BBC Giant plastic catcher heads for Pacific Ocean clean-up
  • 28 August 2018 Forbes The Ocean Cleanup Is Starting, Aims To Cut Garbage Patch By 90% By 2040
  • 16 June 2018 Bloomberg The Nonprofit Startup Taking on ‘The Great Pacific Garbage Patch’
  • 13 June 2018 NBC A young Dutch inventor wants to clean plastic from the ocean. Can he do it?
  • 20 April 2018 Fast Company The Revolutionary Giant Ocean Cleanup Machine Is About To Set Sail
  • 18 April 2018 CBS Plan To Clean Up Great Pacific Garbage Patch Nears Launch
  • 22 March 2018 The New York Times The ‘Great Pacific Garbage Patch’ Is Ballooning, 87,000 Tons of Plastic and Counting
  • 22 March 2018 The Guardian ‘Great Pacific garbage patch’ sprawling with far more debris than thought
  • 7 December 2017 EW Magazine Dit is de Nederlander van het Jaar 2017
  • 4 August 2017 The Telegraph ‘It’s important to at least try’: Can this 23-year-old clear the oceans of plastic waste?
  • 28 June 2017 CNN Floating a new idea for garbage collection
  • 26 June 2017 BBC A 22 year-old has a plan to clear the oceans of plastic
  • 16 June 2017 Outside We just dumped 11 million pounds of plastic in the ocean
  • 15 June 2017 El Pais La mayor limpieza (del océano) de la historia
  • 8 June 2017 Daily Mail Rivers found to feed plastic to oceans in new study
  • 16 May 2017 Reuters Dutchman wants to deploy barriers to gather, recycle Pacific plastic
  • 15 May 2017 BBC How do you clean up the ocean’s biggest rubbish dump?
  • 12 May 2017 O Globo Jovem de 22 anos apresenta plano para tirar plásticos do oceano
  • 11 May 2017 Business Insider Dutch group says it will soon start cleaning up ocean trash
  • 11 May 2017 Business Insider A 22-year-old is moving ahead with a controversial plan to trap plastic floating in the great Pacific garbage patch
  • 11 May 2017 Fast Company Boy Genius Boyan Slat’s Giant Ocean Cleanup Machine is Real
  • 11 May 2017 ABC News Effort to clean up ocean plastic to begin in the next 12 months
  • 11 May 2017 CBS Group To Clean Up Pacific Garbage Patch 2 Years Earlier Than Planned
  • 22 April 2017 CNBC Why Peter Thiel believes in this 22-year-old’s dream to clean up the oceans
  • 31 January 2017 Reader's Digest European of the Year: Boyan Slat Wants to Clean Up the Oceans
  • 10 January 2017 The Washington Post A young man tries to save the oceans from plastic with floating noodle look-alikes
  • 4 October 2016 The Guardian ‘Great Pacific Garbage Patch’ Far Bigger Than Imagined, Aerial Survey Shows
  • 3 October 2016 HUFFPOST The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Is Even Worse Than We Feared
  • 3 October 2016 ABC7 Researchers At Moffett Field Aim To Clean Great Pacfic Garbage Patch
  • 18 August 2016 USA Today Meet The Guy Trying To Clean Up The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
  • 14 August 2016 PBS Can This Project Clean Up Millions Of Tons Of Ocean Plastic?
  • 8 July 2016 CBC 21-year-old Boyan Slat Wants To Rid The World’s Oceans Of Plastic
  • 5 July 2016 Paradigm Ocean Trash Cleanup Test Underway
  • 23 June 2016 The Economist Garbage In, Garbage Out: Marine Plastic
  • 22 June 2016 The Guardian Dutch Prototype Clean-up Boom Brings Pacific Plastics Solution a Step Closer
  • 22 June 2016 NOS Prototype Inzamelmachine Voor Plasticsoep De Noordzee In
  • 14 June 2016 El Pais Océanos de plástico
  • 14 June 2016 HUFFPOST Passion-driven Innovation to Save Our Oceans
  • 9 June 2016 The Times Sea-cleaning dam stretches its arms
  • 8 June 2016 HUFFPOST 21-Year-Old’s Miracle Ocean-Cleaning Tech Ready To Get Its Feet Wet
  • 13 May 2016 Inhabitat Plastic-scooping Ocean Cleanup project wins prestigious Katerva Award
  • 11 February 2016 HUFFPOST The Largest Ocean Cleanup In History Will Begin By 2020, And A 21-year-old Is Leading The Way.
  • 2 February 2016 The Sydney Morning Herald Boyan Slat’s high school project raises millions to clean up world’s oceans
  • 1 February 2016 The Washington Post Can the ‘largest cleanup in history’ save the ocean?
  • 31 December 2015 Inhabitat Ocean Cleanup Array to be tested in the North Sea next year
  • 13 November 2015 The Guardian World’s largest ocean cleanup operation one step closer to launch
  • 24 August 2015 Reuters Researchers sample enormous oceanic trash vortex ahead of clean-up proposal
  • 24 August 2015 CBS Mega Expedition returns from Great Pacific Garbage Patch
  • 24 August 2015 EcoWatch Boyan Slat’s ‘Mega Expedition’ Shows ‘Our Oceans Are Riddled With Plastic’
  • 29 May 2015 Aljazeera World’s first ocean system targeting plastic pollution to launch in 2016
  • 8 April 2015 EcoWatch 20 Year Old Claims He Can Rid the World’s Oceans of Plastic
  • 26 March 2013 Inhabitat 19-Year-Old Develops Ocean Cleanup Array That Could Remove 7,250,000 Tons Of Plastic From the World’s Oceans

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