PLASTIC FANTASTIC

Of throwaway drinks bottles and flesh-eating bacteria

MARINE LITTER

Ocean Cleanup vehicle is now catching and retaining plastics / Design work commences on a new full-scale system / Recycling on land

MARINE LITTER

Ocean Cleanup heading back to the Pacific patch / System modifications

MARINE LITTER

Technical flaws in HDPE pipe connection a factor in Ocean Cleanup breakdown in the Pacific / Restart is months away / Plastics pollution “gets worse by the day”

MARINE LITTER

New glitch for Ocean Cleanup / End section becomes detached / Vehicle to be towed to Hawaii for damage assessment / Boyan Slat still confident

MARINE LITTER

Ocean Cleanup project hits a snag / Waste slips out with the fish / Overhaul planned / Team confident problems can be fixed

MARINE LITTER

"World Cleanup Day" to tweak awareness / Ocean Cleanup vessel launched to collect waste in Pacific garbage patch

MARINE LITTER

Pacific garbage patch on alert / Ocean Cleanup to launch floating collection system in September / Estimates of 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic in gyre

PLASTICS AND ENVIRONMENT

Marine Litter: More plastics in the Pacific than thought / Ocean Cleanup completes first aerial survey