The Ocean Cleanup has removed over 45 million kilograms of plastic from oceans and rivers, but millions of tons still enter the sea each year.

When self-described “ocean custodian” Boyan Slat took the stage at TED 2025 in Vancouver this week, he showed viewers a reality many of us are already heartbreakingly familiar with: There is a lot of ...

In October 2019, The Ocean Cleanup project made headlines around the world when its prototype vessel started collecting plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This launch followed a year of ...

The Ocean Cleanup is dedicated to removing plastic from the world's oceans. It's a formidable task: National Geographic estimates that 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic, the equivalent of 269,000 tons, ...

You've probably seen the photos: a sea turtle trapped in fishing line, a plastic bottle wedged in coral, and shorelines littered with packaging. That's not some distant problem. The same waste tossed ...

Boyan Slat, founder and CEO of The Ocean Cleanup, explains the nonprofit's mission to clean up floating plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. I'm an award-winning Video Producer and Host for ...