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Man plans to swim the Pacific Ocean to raise awareness for plastic pollution

You've heard a lot about the ocean plastic crisis, and may even know a fair amount about the Great Pacific Garbage...

Assembly of The Ocean Cleanup's plastic-scooping system in Alameda, California

The Ocean Cleanup is about to send a giant plastic collector to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is growing at an alarming rate — and it's already three times the size of France....

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7 biggest threats to the environment - why we still need Earth Day

This Sunday is Earth Day, and while it's a time to celebrate our planet, it's also a prime opportunity to take...

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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is growing at an exponential rate

Scientists recently found that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch - now three times the size of France - is showing...

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The Ocean Cleanup launches San Francisco base in Pacific trash-busting bid

The Ocean Cleanup Project seeks to dismantle the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, guided by an ambitious design concept...

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A garbage patch bigger than Texas was just discovered in the Pacific Ocean

A few months ago, scientists found a new garbage patch in the Arctic ocean. And now, another pocket of plastics,...

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We've made enough plastic trash to bury Manhattan under 2-miles of the stuff

Whether you get an iced latte to-go in the morning, your restaurant leftovers in a plastic takeaway container,...

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Redesigned Ocean Cleanup arrays to start scooping up Pacific garbage patch within a year

The Ocean Cleanup just made a huge announcement from Werkspoorkathedraal, an exhibition in the Netherlands. CEO...

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The Ocean Cleanup raises $21.7 million to begin ridding the Pacific Ocean of plastic

Last fall The Ocean Cleanup found 1,000 large pieces of plastic in two hours in the Pacific Ocean during their...

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World's first ocean trash recon mission is complete - and the results are way worse than we thought

The Ocean Cleanup just completed its first aerial reconnaissance scan of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch to assess...

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Boyan Slat's Ocean Cleanup takes to the air to count plastic trash in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IjaZ2g-21E The concept behind the Ocean Cleanup Array is so simple that many...

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SPARK designs solar-powered beach huts made from discarded ocean trash

Inspired by the work of Parley for the Oceans, an organization of creatives that addresses major threats towards...

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Ocean Cleanup Array to be tested in the North Sea next year

The inaugural test of the Ocean Cleanup Array is finally nigh. A trash-collecting dam that allows the ocean’s...

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Boyan Slat's Great Pacific Garbage Patch expedition shows the plastic problem is "even bigger than we thought"

Last month Boyan Slat's Ocean Cleanup project sent a fleet of scientists and volunteers to measure and map the...

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World's first Ocean Cleanup Array will start removing plastic from the seas in 2016

While still in his teens, Dutch inventor Boyan Slat conceived of an Ocean Cleanup Array that he believed could...

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