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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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16 August 2019 The Ocean Cleanup Has Good News, Hopes To Resume Plastic Cleanup Soon
4 February 2019 A Grand Plan to Clean the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
11 January 2019 Founder Of Ocean Cleanup Vows Return, Says Failure Talk Is ‘Rubbish’
16 December 2018 60 minutes – Cleaning up the Plastic in the Ocean
14 October 2018 Boyan Slat’s Plastic Hunt – Documentary

16 September 2018 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 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 The Ocean Cleanup launches its plastic collecting system
9 September 2018 It took 5 years, now the Ocean Cleanup system is heading to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
7 September 2018 The Ocean Cleanup vessel is on its way to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
7 September 2018 Giant plastic catcher heads for Pacific Ocean clean-up
28 August 2018 The Ocean Cleanup Is Starting, Aims To Cut Garbage Patch By 90% By 2040
16 June 2018 The Nonprofit Startup Taking on ‘The Great Pacific Garbage Patch’
13 June 2018 A young Dutch inventor wants to clean plastic from the ocean. Can he do it?
20 April 2018 The Revolutionary Giant Ocean Cleanup Machine Is About To Set Sail
18 April 2018 Plan To Clean Up Great Pacific Garbage Patch Nears Launch
22 March 2018 The ‘Great Pacific Garbage Patch’ Is Ballooning, 87,000 Tons of Plastic and Counting
22 March 2018 ‘Great Pacific garbage patch’ sprawling with far more debris than thought
7 December 2017 Dit is de Nederlander van het Jaar 2017
4 August 2017 ‘It’s important to at least try’: Can this 23-year-old clear the oceans of plastic waste?
28 June 2017 Floating a new idea for garbage collection
26 June 2017 A 22 year-old has a plan to clear the oceans of plastic
16 June 2017 We just dumped 11 million pounds of plastic in the ocean
15 June 2017 La mayor limpieza (del océano) de la historia
8 June 2017 Rivers found to feed plastic to oceans in new study
16 May 2017 Dutchman wants to deploy barriers to gather, recycle Pacific plastic
15 May 2017 How do you clean up the ocean’s biggest rubbish dump?
12 May 2017 Jovem de 22 anos apresenta plano para tirar plásticos do oceano
11 May 2017 Dutch group says it will soon start cleaning up ocean trash
11 May 2017 A 22-year-old is moving ahead with a controversial plan to trap plastic floating in the great Pacific garbage patch
11 May 2017 Boy Genius Boyan Slat’s Giant Ocean Cleanup Machine is Real
11 May 2017 Effort to clean up ocean plastic to begin in the next 12 months
22 April 2017 Why Peter Thiel believes in this 22-year-old’s dream to clean up the oceans
31 January 2017 European of the Year: Boyan Slat Wants to Clean Up the Oceans
4 October 2016 ‘Great Pacific Garbage Patch’ Far Bigger Than Imagined, Aerial Survey Shows
3 October 2016 The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Is Even Worse Than We Feared
3 October 2016 Researchers At Moffett Field Aim To Clean Great Pacfic Garbage Patch
18 August 2016 Meet The Guy Trying To Clean Up The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
14 August 2016 Can This Project Clean Up Millions Of Tons Of Ocean Plastic?
8 July 2016 21-year-old Boyan Slat Wants To Rid The World’s Oceans Of Plastic
5 July 2016 Ocean Trash Cleanup Test Underway
23 June 2016 Garbage In, Garbage Out: Marine Plastic
22 June 2016 Dutch Prototype Clean-up Boom Brings Pacific Plastics Solution a Step Closer
22 June 2016 Prototype Inzamelmachine Voor Plasticsoep De Noordzee In
14 June 2016 Océanos de plástico
14 June 2016 Passion-driven Innovation to Save Our Oceans
9 June 2016 Sea-cleaning dam stretches its arms
8 June 2016 21-Year-Old’s Miracle Ocean-Cleaning Tech Ready To Get Its Feet Wet
13 May 2016 Plastic-scooping Ocean Cleanup project wins prestigious Katerva Award
11 February 2016 The Largest Ocean Cleanup In History Will Begin By 2020, And A 21-year-old Is Leading The Way.
2 February 2016 Boyan Slat’s high school project raises millions to clean up world’s oceans
1 February 2016 Can the ‘largest cleanup in history’ save the ocean?
31 December 2015 Ocean Cleanup Array to be tested in the North Sea next year
13 November 2015 World’s largest ocean cleanup operation one step closer to launch
24 August 2015 Researchers sample enormous oceanic trash vortex ahead of clean-up proposal
24 August 2015 Mega Expedition returns from Great Pacific Garbage Patch
24 August 2015 Boyan Slat’s ‘Mega Expedition’ Shows ‘Our Oceans Are Riddled With Plastic’
29 May 2015 World’s first ocean system targeting plastic pollution to launch in 2016