Boyan Slat, CEO of The Ocean Cleanup, talks about the new and improved river plastic Interceptors and the nonprofit's plans for building and deploying more of them around the world. I'm an ...

A nightmare haunts our oceans. But an 18-year-old visionary dared to dream of its end. Boyan Slat founded The Ocean Cleanup, ...

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 try ...

A project to clean up the world's ocean using a device designed to collect floating plastic debris encountered a major setback. Young Dutch inventor Boyan Slat came up with the Ocean Cleanup project ...

Boyan Slat, the 25-year-old founder of Ocean Cleanup, recently announced that his famous invention was finally “harvesting” plastic from the sea. Some of the items recovered were a car tire, Styrofoam ...

ALAMEDA (CBS SF) -- Already grappling with how to retain plastic it has collected at the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a cleanup rig had another setback over the weekend and will be returning to port ...

Young Dutch inventor Boyan Slat, right, unveils the Interceptor in Rotterdam, Netherlands, Saturday, Oct. 26, 2019. Slat is taking his effort to clean up floating plastic from the Pacific Ocean to ...

After its first voyage resulted in disappointment, Boyan Slat’s team has made some major fixes. Now they’re ready to try to take on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch again. In late 2019, the giant Ocean ...

The conversation around the climate crisis in the United States lacks substance and instead focuses on sensationalized activism. Social activists are receiving more coverage and popularity than the ...

More than 320 million metric tons of plastic are produced every year, and a lot of it accumulates in the oceans. At age 16, Dutch innovator Boyan Slat decided he wanted to tackle the problem. At age ...

Booth is a reporter at TIME. Photo-Illustration by TIME (Source Image: Courtesy Boyan Slat) As if entangling wildlife and contaminating seafood weren’t enough, ocean plastic may be sabotaging the ...