Ocean Cleanup project readies North Sea garbage collection test
9 years, 3 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 plastic waste using the sea's own currents. The results of this test will be used to help de-risk the Ocean Cleanup's first operational cleanup system, planned to be launched off the coast of Tsushima Island between Japan and South Korea in the second half of 2016. Both the North Sea test and the larger test near Tsushima Island are aimed at furthering the Ocean Cleanup towards their ultimate goal of developing a passive technology to clean up the world's oceanic patches.

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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 …

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, 8 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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Ocean Cleanup raises enough cash to test North Sea plastic trap
8 years, 9 months ago

Ocean Cleanup raises enough cash to test North Sea plastic trap

NL Times  

Dutchman Boyal Slat's project foundation The Ocean Cleanup raised enough funding to launch a prototype test in the North Sea, the foundation announced on Wednesday. According to the foundation, two thirds of the 1.5 million euros needed for the North Sea prototype test was contributed by dredging company Royal Boskalis and the Ministries of Infrastructure and Environment and Economic Affairs. …

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 …

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 …

Ocean cleanup plan pitched by Delft teen
10 years, 9 months ago

Ocean cleanup plan pitched by Delft teen

NL Times  

A student from Delft has found a way to clean the ocean of plastic waste in an efficient and reasonably priced way. In 2012, 19-year old inventor Boyan Slat found a solution to rid the world's conscience of the ocean's plastic pollution problem. Slat's installation has long floating arms, in the shape of a V. These arms are 100 kilometers …

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