The Ocean Cleanup, one of a growing number of organisations aiming to rid the oceans of plastic, is to begin operations in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch next year. read more
If all goes as planned, Slat and his team hope to collect almost half of the remnants in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which stretches across waters from the U.S. West Coast to Japan. That's more than 150 million pounds of trash in just 10 years. read more