Great Pacific Garbage Patch could be eliminated in 10 years, cleanup organization says
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Great Pacific Garbage Patch could be eliminated in 10 years, cleanup organization says

LA Times  

In their three years at sea, the Ocean Cleanup vessels have removed more than a million pounds of trash from the Pacific Ocean, representing 0.5% of the total accumulation. After three years extracting plastic waste from the notorious Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an environmental nonprofit says it can finish the job within a decade, with a price tag of several billion dollars. At current levels, the cleanup would take a decade with a price tag of $7.5 billion, the Netherlands-based Ocean Cleanup said in a press release, announcing the group’s intention to eliminate the garbage patch entirely. In their three years at sea, the Ocean Cleanup vessels have removed more than a million pounds of trash, representing 0.5% of the total accumulation.

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Garbage dumpyard in Pacific Ocean is getting bigger and bigger
4 months, 1 week ago

Garbage dumpyard in Pacific Ocean is getting bigger and bigger

India Today  

A new study published in Environmental Research Letters reveals a disturbing trend in the North Pacific Garbage Patch : centimeter-sized plastic fragments are accumulating at an alarming rate, outpacing the growth of larger plastic debris. The research, conducted by The Ocean Cleanup between 2015 and 2022, found that plastic fragments in the NPGP rose from 2.9kg per square km to …

The Dark Side of Ocean Cleanup Technology
1 year, 2 months ago

The Dark Side of Ocean Cleanup Technology

Slate  

Rebecca Helm despises the phrase “Great Pacific Garbage Patch.” This moniker is used to describe the vast stretch of ocean from the west coast of North America to Japan that is crammed with an estimated 1.8 trillion pieces of trash, most of which are plastic. However, several years later, Helm still believes that we don’t understand enough about the environmental …

Hundreds of volunteers gather to pick up trash on Dutch beaches annual cleanup kicks off
1 year, 7 months ago

Hundreds of volunteers gather to pick up trash on Dutch beaches annual cleanup kicks off

NL Times  

Hundreds of volunteers will start a fifteen-day clean-up operation of the entire Dutch coast on Tuesday. The clean-up is organized by the North Sea Foundation, an environmental organization committed to making fishing more sustainable and protecting the North Sea nature, among other things. Research by the North Sea Foundation shows that there are an average of 282 pieces of waste …

Storm is an ‘extreme test’ of waste capture system protecting the Pacific from L.A. runoff
2 years, 2 months ago

Storm is an ‘extreme test’ of waste capture system protecting the Pacific from L.A. runoff

LA Times  

An interceptor, made by Dutch nonprofit the Ocean Cleanup, serves as a last line of defense against trash flowing into the Pacific Ocean by way of Ballona Creek. A November 2019 motion put before the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors described the partnership with Ocean Cleanup as a pilot project spanning two storm seasons between October and April. Ocean …

The secrets being revealed by ocean garbage patches
2 years, 6 months ago

The secrets being revealed by ocean garbage patches

BBC  

The secrets being revealed by ocean garbage patches Mladen Antonov/AFP/Getty Images Much of the rubbish that ends up in the sea stays close to the shore where it is then swept back onto the land The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is an enormous agglomeration of plastic waste floating in the world's largest ocean, but it's not the only one and …

Ocean Cleanup pulls first 100,000 kg of plastic from Pacific
2 years, 7 months ago

Ocean Cleanup pulls first 100,000 kg of plastic from Pacific

NL Times  

The Ocean Cleanup project reached an important milestone last week. It officially removed over 100,000 kilograms of plastic waste from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, CEO and inventor Boyan Slat announced. “I’m proud of The Ocean Cleanup team for crossing this milestone, which is all the more remarkable considering System 002 is still an experimental system. Now that our technology …

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is collecting ocean mysteries
2 years, 8 months ago

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is collecting ocean mysteries

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The most famous of these ocean plastic hotspots is known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which sits between …

Ocean Cleanup pulling plastic out of world's most polluted river in Guatemala
2 years, 9 months ago

Ocean Cleanup pulling plastic out of world's most polluted river in Guatemala

NL Times  

Boyan Slat's Ocean Cleanup is testing new technology to intercept plastic waste before it washes into the ocean. A trial run with the Interceptor Trashfence is currently happening in the Rio Motagua in Guatemala - the heaviest polluting river in the world, the company said. The Interceptor Trashfence was explicitly designed for the Rio Motagua after the Ocean Cleanup researchers …

Ocean Cleanup technology works, final tests show
3 years, 5 months ago

Ocean Cleanup technology works, final tests show

NL Times  

Tests recently carried out prove that the technology behind the Ocean Cleanup project works. In total, the Ocean Cleanup has already removed almost a million kilos of waste from seas and rivers. Ocean Cleanup continues to develop and is currently designing a new and larger type of sweeping arm that can become the "blueprint" for further cleanup actions. "It's just …

Dutch inventor says his ocean cleaning boom is working
5 years, 5 months ago

Dutch inventor says his ocean cleaning boom is working

Associated Press  

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — After a series of setbacks, a system for catching plastic floating in the Pacific between California and Hawaii is now working, its Dutch inventor said Wednesday. Boyan Slat, a university dropout who founded The Ocean Cleanup nonprofit, announced that the floating boom is skimming up waste ranging in size from a discarded net and a car …

Meet the ocean cleanup company that's removed 4.7 million pounds of trash
5 years, 9 months ago

Meet the ocean cleanup company that's removed 4.7 million pounds of trash

CBS News  

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced plans this week to eliminate single-use plastics nationwide as early as 2021, the latest move in a global effort to curb plastic pollution. While lawmakers are taking action on land, two surfers from Florida are fighting the battle on the water: Andrew Cooper and Alex Schulze, who founded the ocean cleanup company 4ocean. "The …

Huge trash-collecting boom in Pacific Ocean breaks apart
6 years, 2 months ago

Huge trash-collecting boom in Pacific Ocean breaks apart

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — A trash collection device deployed to corral plastic litter floating in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii has broken apart and will be hauled back to dry land for repairs. Boyan Slat, who launched the Pacific Ocean cleanup project, told NBC News last week that the 2,000-foot long floating boom will be towed 800 miles to …

A massive floating device created to clean up the Pacific Ocean breaks down
6 years, 2 months ago

A massive floating device created to clean up the Pacific Ocean breaks down

CNN  

CNN — A 2,000-foot-long system created to clean up plastic pollution in the Pacific Ocean is broken and being towed back to port for repair. The Ocean Cleanup System 001, a U-shaped floating barrier created by the organization The Ocean Cleanup, arrived in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in October. “It appears that the system occasionally travels slower than the …

Huge barrier isn’t trapping plastic waste in Pacific Ocean
6 years, 3 months ago

Huge barrier isn’t trapping plastic waste in Pacific Ocean

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — A floating device sent to corral a swirling island of trash between California and Hawaii has not swept up any plastic waste — but the young innovator behind the project said Monday that a fix was in the works. Boyan Slat, 24, who launched the Pacific Ocean cleanup project, said the speed of the solar-powered barrier isn’t …

Barrier isn't trapping trash in Pacific Ocean after months
6 years, 3 months ago

Barrier isn't trapping trash in Pacific Ocean after months

India TV News  

Barrier isn't trapping trash in Pacific Ocean after months A floating device deployed three months ago to corral a swirling island of trash between California and Hawaii hasn't swept up any plastic waste LOS ANGELES — A floating device deployed three months ago to corral a swirling island of trash between California and Hawaii has not swept up any plastic …

Ocean Cleanup project not catching plastic; Dutch designer optimistic about solution
6 years, 3 months ago

Ocean Cleanup project not catching plastic; Dutch designer optimistic about solution

NL Times  

Dutch man Boyan Slat's Ocean Cleanup project is not working quite as it should. The Ocean Cleanup team took hitches in the project into account, the 24-year-old Slat said to the Volkskrant. The Ocean Cleanup system consists of large, solid barriers that will guide floating plastic to a central collection point using the currents of the ocean. Two months ago, …

This floating pipe is trying to clean up all the plastic in the ocean
6 years, 5 months ago

This floating pipe is trying to clean up all the plastic in the ocean

CNN  

San Francisco CNN — A 2,000 foot-long floating pipe nicknamed Wilson is about to start its mission to collect all the plastic in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Last month, the Ocean Cleanup foundation launched the world’s first ocean cleanup system out of San Francisco to take on the notorious “Great Pacific Garbage Patch,” a giant floating trash pile …

Great Pacific Garbage Patch: Experts unsure if Ocean Cleanup is going to rid the seas of plastic
6 years, 6 months ago

Great Pacific Garbage Patch: Experts unsure if Ocean Cleanup is going to rid the seas of plastic

ABC  

How do you clear 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic, weighing 80,000 tonnes, from the surface of the Pacific Ocean? Key points: The cleaning vessel launched from San Francisco and is undergoing a two-week trial Ingestion and ensnaring are the main threats that plastic pollution poses to ocean life The Ocean Cleanup hopes to scale up to about 60 systems if …

Marc Benioff Bets on Cleanup Tech for Ocean Trash
6 years, 6 months ago

Marc Benioff Bets on Cleanup Tech for Ocean Trash

Wired  

As a boy tinkerer in the Netherlands, Boyan Slat made zip lines and, at age 14, set a Guinness World Record for launching the most water rockets—213 of them—at once. In hindsight, Slat says, “I just didn’t have a real problem to work on.” Soon, he found one. Michelle Groskopf Slat’s goal was to build a system that uses ocean …

Dutch developer's Ocean Cleanup project kicks off
6 years, 6 months ago

Dutch developer's Ocean Cleanup project kicks off

NL Times  

The great ocean cleanup by 24-year-old Dutch man Boyan Slat and his company Ocean Cleanup is finally underway. Slat's 600 meter long 'plastic catcher' departed from San Francisco on Saturday and is on its way to clean up the plastic soup in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii, NOS reports. Slat is proud and delighted that the project is …

Massive boom hopes to sweep Pacific Ocean's plastic trash
6 years, 6 months ago

Massive boom hopes to sweep Pacific Ocean's plastic trash

The Hindu  

Engineers set to sea on September 8, to deploy a trash collection device to corral plastic litter floating between California and Hawaii in an attempt to clean up the world’s largest garbage patch in the heart of the Pacific Ocean. Free-floating barriers Slat said he and his team will pay close attention to whether the system works efficiently and withstands …

Giant rubbish collection device deployed to clean up huge island of floating plastic garbage in Pacific Ocean
6 years, 6 months ago

Giant rubbish collection device deployed to clean up huge island of floating plastic garbage in Pacific Ocean

ABC  

Engineers have set to sea to deploy a rubbish-collection device to corral plastic litter floating between California and Hawaii in an attempt to clean up the world's largest rubbish patch in the heart of the Pacific Ocean. Key points: System created by The Ocean Cleanup, organisation founded by 24-year-old Dutch innovator Boyan Slat 600-metre long device has a 3-metre deep …

‘Great Pacific garbage patch’ 16 times bigger than previously thought, say scientists
7 years ago

‘Great Pacific garbage patch’ 16 times bigger than previously thought, say scientists

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Nearly 80,000 tonnes of plastic are floating in the area of the ocean known as …

Giant Trash Patch in Pacific Ocean Now Three Times the Size of France
7 years ago

Giant Trash Patch in Pacific Ocean Now Three Times the Size of France

CNN  

A massive pile of trash in the Pacific Ocean is growing larger, with the mass now three times the size of France. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is made up of ghost nets, fishing nets, and other debris from the 2011 Japanese tsunami. The bulk of the pile is made up of larger objects, while only 8% of the mass …

Great Pacific Garbage Patch plastic pollution dwarfs previous estimates and is 'growing exponentially'
7 years ago

Great Pacific Garbage Patch plastic pollution dwarfs previous estimates and is 'growing exponentially'

ABC  

New findings show that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a rotating soup of plastic in the north Pacific Ocean, contains up to 16 times more waste than previous surveys were able to detect. Key points: Surveys of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch conducted in 2015 and 2016 estimate 78,400 tonnes of plastic waste are packed into an area almost the …

The Trash Patch In The Pacific Is Many Times Bigger Than We Thought
7 years ago

The Trash Patch In The Pacific Is Many Times Bigger Than We Thought

NPR  

The Trash Patch In The Pacific Is Many Times Bigger Than We Thought Enlarge this image toggle caption UniversalImagesGroup/UIG via Getty Images UniversalImagesGroup/UIG via Getty Images Between California and Hawaii, there's a teeming patch of garbage that's stretched over an area more than double the size of Texas. There's a reason it's called the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch." More than …

Ocean Cleanup claims 50 percent plastic removal from Pacific by 2023
7 years, 10 months ago

Ocean Cleanup claims 50 percent plastic removal from Pacific by 2023

NL Times  

The Ocean Cleanup Project in the Pacific Ocean will start sooner and work faster, than initially planned founder Boyan Slat announced on Thursday. "We will start the cleanup early next year", the 22-year-old inventor and environmental activist said. The cleanup system consists of two 2 kilometer long arms floating on the ocean. The Ocean Cleanup's first goal is to clean …

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Is Even Worse Than We Feared
8 years, 5 months ago

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Is Even Worse Than We Feared

Huff Post  

The first aerial survey of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch shows that the amount of debris swirling in the North Pacific has been “heavily underestimated,” the expedition group said. “This underlines the urgency of why we need to clean it up and that we really need to take care of the plastic that’s already out there in the ocean, because …

Coral Sea expedition nets 2.2 tonnes of rubbish in 12 days
8 years, 9 months ago

Coral Sea expedition nets 2.2 tonnes of rubbish in 12 days

ABC  

A 12-day expedition into the Coral Sea Marine Reserve has removed 2.2 tonnes of rubbish from the region's islands and reefs. "We found a ridiculous amount of plastic bottles, thongs, weird things like a kids toy piano, a bar fridge, lots and lots of fishing buoys, ghost nets — the pile is just incredible out here on the wharf," he …

How to make the Great Pacific Garbage Patch history
9 years, 1 month ago

How to make the Great Pacific Garbage Patch history

Wired  

This article was first published in the March 2016 issue of WIRED magazine. "Actively fishing for plastic would take 7,900 years, and create emissions," says the 21-year-old founder and CEO of Delft-based organisation The Ocean Cleanup. The goal is to deploy a 100km boom by 2020 in order to clear half of the so-called "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" -- a …

How scientists plan to clean up plastic waste threatening marine life
9 years, 2 months ago

How scientists plan to clean up plastic waste threatening marine life

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Scientists have worked out the best way of removing the millions of tons of plastic …

Ocean Cleanup project readies North Sea garbage collection test
9 years, 2 months ago

Ocean Cleanup project readies North Sea garbage collection test

NL Times  

Delft student Boyan Slat's Ocean Cleanup project will be doing its first real world test just off the coast of the Netherlands in the North Sea in the second quarter of 2016, the project announced on Wednesday. The Ocean Cleanup will deploy a 100 meter long barrier segment in the North Sea, 23 kilometers off the Dutch coast, to collect …

A pair of skimmers do clean sweeps of Oceanside’s harbor
9 years, 4 months ago

A pair of skimmers do clean sweeps of Oceanside’s harbor

LA Times  

A pair of skimmers is making it easier to keep this city’s municipal harbor clean, alleviating one of the most frequent complaints from visitors and boat owners: trash and muck in the water. Maintenance workers remove the trash daily because the skimmers, fastened to a commercial dock on the eastern end of the south harbor, shut down automatically if they …

Barriers measuring 6,500-feet to be deployed to help the oceans 'clean themselves' of millions of tons of plastic waste
9 years, 9 months ago

Barriers measuring 6,500-feet to be deployed to help the oceans 'clean themselves' of millions of tons of plastic waste

Daily Mail  

If the Ocean Cleanup project works, more could be put into operation around the globe It works by using the current to capture floating plastic, allowing aquatic life to safely escape under the buffer A trial system is installed in Japan, which will be the longest floating structure in the world when completed Boyan Slat's idea on how to rid …

Ocean Cleanup pioneer youngest-ever winner of UN award
10 years, 4 months ago

Ocean Cleanup pioneer youngest-ever winner of UN award

NL Times  

Boyan Slat, founder of the Ocean Cleanup initiative, has been announced as one of the winners of the Champion of the Earht award - the United Nation's top environmental accolade. The Ocean Cleanup's latest feasibility research estimates that almost half of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch can be removed within ten years using this technology. "I'm incredibly excited and honored …

Welcome to the world’s largest garbage dump[1]
10 years, 11 months ago

Welcome to the world’s largest garbage dump[1]

China Daily  

Welcome to the world’s largest garbage dump Updated: 2014-04-24 07:47 By Yang Yang Rubbish at sea not only threatens shipping and marine life, but has the potential to cause severe harm to people, reports Yang Yang Since Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 went missing in the early hours of March 8, teams of rescue workers have been frantically searching large swaths …

Welcome to the world’s largest garbage dump[2]
10 years, 11 months ago

Welcome to the world’s largest garbage dump[2]

China Daily  

Welcome to the world’s largest garbage dump Updated: 2014-04-24 07:47 By Yang Yang Plastic soup However, rather than floating trash islands, marine garbage patches are not wholly visible. 80% of debris in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch comes from land, including plastic bags,bottles and various other consumer products. THE GREAT PACIFIC GARBAGE PATCH A gyre of marine debris particles in …

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