The Ocean Cleanup has teamed up with Yves Béhar to create a pair of sunglasses from plastic that the non-profit has collected from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. More about Yves Béhar designs first product from The Ocean Cleanup plastic
The Ocean Cleanup has revealed plans to turn the plastic it has collected from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch into "beautiful, sustainable products". More about The Ocean Cleanup to make products from collected marine plastic
Dutch non-profit The Ocean Cleanup has launched the Interceptor, an autonomous system for collecting plastic pollution from rivers before it reaches the sea. More about The Ocean Cleanup launches system to catch plastic waste in rivers
Dutch non-profit The Ocean Cleanup plans to burn some of the plastic it collects from the Pacific Ocean, Dezeen has learned. Designers and environmentalists say the move "makes no sense". More about Plastic collected by The Ocean Cleanup will be burned to generate electricity
A floating device employed by The Ocean Cleanup project has been upgraded and returned to sea in a second attempt to catch the plastic waste circulating in the Pacific Ocean. More about The Ocean Cleanup redeployed to tackle Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Sustainability experts have questioned the validity of The Ocean Cleanup, an initiative designed to scoop plastic waste from the Pacific Ocean. More about The Ocean Cleanup labelled "a dream that seduced many people"
A fracture in The Ocean Cleanup's "giant Pac Man", dispatched to scoop up waste from the Pacific Ocean, has forced the company to abort the mission and haul the apparatus back to shore. More about The Ocean Cleanup suspended as device breaks down in Pacific Ocean
The first large-scale operation to scoop waste plastic from the Pacific Ocean has set off from San Francisco. More about The Ocean Cleanup dispatches "giant Pac-Man" to remove plastic from the Pacific
A major initiative aiming to rid a rubbish-riddled area of the Pacific Ocean from its discarded plastic will begin work within the next 12 months. More about The Ocean Cleanup will begin extracting plastic from the Pacific in 2018
A 100-kilometre array of floating barriers designed by a 20-year-old inventor aims to clear the oceans of waste plastic, and is one of the projects shortlisted for this year's Designs of the Year award (+ slideshow). More about The Ocean Cleanup aims to strip 70 million kilos of plastic from the sea in 10 years