An curved arrow pointing right. Boyan Slat founded The Ocean Cleanup in 2013, when he was just 19. The idea is simple: floating barriers accumulate garbage that's traveling in natural ocean currents.

In Newsweek's annual honoring of the World's Greatest Auto Disruptors, Kia is the 2025 Sustainability Disruptor of the Year.

Last year, volunteers removed nearly 277,000 pieces of trash, most of it plastic, from New Jersey beaches. Plastic made up 83% of debris picked up by beach sweep volunteers, up from about 50% in ...

A sink was one of the more unusual items picked up by volunteers from the beach during Clean Ocean Action's 2024 Beach Sweeps. Last year, volunteers removed nearly 277,000 pieces of trash ...