When self-described “ocean custodian” Boyan Slat took the stage at TED 2025 in Vancouver this week, he showed viewers a reality many of us are already heartbreakingly familiar with: There is a lot of ...

Ocean Cleanup is a non-profit started in 2013 by then 18-year-old Boyan Slat of the Netherlands. He proposed and developed a number of skimmer-type devices to retrieve plastic floating in the ocean ...

SAN DIEGO — We are not the only animals that consider San Diego, and on a much larger scale Earth, our home. The mission with Project Kolika is to be a voice for the voiceless animals that we share ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, or GPGP for short, isn't exactly what you might have heard. It's not a floating garbage land-mass twice the size of Texas that you can settle, even though it kind of ...

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 the ...

Kids Ocean Day in Mission Beach on May 22 saw students create an 180-foot-wide aerial art piece reading ‘Restore.’ I Love A Clean San Diego’s education and outreach team along with volunteers ...