With the organization’s technology, an area of the ocean the size of a football field is being cleaned every five seconds.

This Boyan Slat, a Dutch teenager with no backing, no engineering degree, and barely enough savings for a half-decent bike, wasn’t interested in usual outcomes. He was too busy trying to figure ...

Young entrepreneur Boyan Slat has run into some hiccups with his plan to rid the world's oceans of plastic. More than six years after the 24-year-old launched The Ocean Cleanup, the organization ...