RIO LAS VACAS, Guatemala ... reaches the trunk of river. While not yet fully operational, the fence could be key to intercepting the plastic, according to The Ocean Cleanup.

It's one of several barges belonging to The Ocean Cleanup, a Dutch nonprofit founded ... and plans to add hundreds more. On a Guatemala river that looks more like a landfill, the device collected ...

In 2023, non-profit organization The Ocean Cleanup erected its own barricade in Las Vacas, a tributary of the Motagua River, located close to Guatemala City, the country’s capital. It recently ...

An estimated 20,000 tonnes of plastic flow through this river into the Caribbean Sea each year. Boyan Slat, CEO and Founder of The Ocean Cleanup, in Guatemala. (The Ocean Cleanup) According to the ...

keeping you informed every step of the way to the November election The non-profit group The Ocean Cleanup has installed a huge, steel-mesh screen on a heavily polluted river outside Guatemala, in ...

and now the partnership has joined forces to produce a limited release album made using waste plastic recovered from the Rio Las Vacas river in Guatemala by the Ocean Cleanup. A number of Notebook ...

The Ocean Cleanup plans to increase the total to 20 Interceptors this year, including one targeting “trash tsunamis” in Guatemala ... since each river system needs a slightly different ...

Mr. Slat is the founder and chief executive of the Ocean Cleanup. The world is finally getting serious about plastic pollution. Next week, delegates from U.N. member states will gather in Paris to ...