The Ocean Cleanup Articles

Every time we hoist a sail we utilize a natural resource that needs attention. The water we sail on needs an advocate and that person is you. The American Sailing Association is committed to addressing the issue of plastic pollution and environmental stewardship. Oceans and lakes are our playgrounds and we have an inherent responsibility to protect them. Sailors Can

Boyan Slat, Founder of The Ocean Cleanup, updated the status of his ocean clean up project with encouraging news about the progress that the organization has made to make a dent in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. 

Sailors don’t rely on robots and engines to clean up the ocean. We make the biggest collective impact by cleaning up our own communities ourselves. Here’s what you need to know to get started with beach cleanups.

The Ocean Cleanup project, headed by 24-year-old Dutch inventor Boyan Slat, has spent the last 5 years designing a U-shaped floating trawl to scour the sea for floating bits of plastic. The 600-meter long floater and attached skirt are designed to work passively with natural elements like currents and wind to follow the plastic’s path and trap it. The skirt

The Plastic Change organization is working to combat the problem of plastic pollution by understanding its origin and informing the process of prevention.

ASA caught up with Boyan Slat last week to talk about how his large scale environmental project, The Ocean Cleanup, is progressing…

Back in the spring, the ASA became involved in The Ocean Cleanup – an ambitious project devoted to ridding the world’s oceans of harmful plastic pollution.

In this episode of “Beyond The Horizon” Jared Leto interviews 21-year-old Boyan Slat, an entrepreneur who is developing technologies to extract, prevent and intercept plastic pollution in the world’s oceans

ASA was in San Francisco for the conclusion of the Mega Expedition… watch the video and find out how The Ocean Cleanup hope to fix the plastic pollution problem…