A solar-powered rubbish-eating boat? The vessel chomping plastic waste out of the sea
by Katharine Gammon

The Guardian    Translate This Article
12 June 2026

On 12 June 2026 The Guardian reported: The Interceptor system was invented by Ocean Cleanup, a global non-profit dedicated to ridding the world's oceans of plastic pollution. Guided by floating barriers, the Interceptor has already stopped more than 143,000lbs of rubbish from entering the Pacific from one Los Angeles river. Global Good News service views this news as a sign of rising positivity in the field of science, documenting the growth of life-supporting, evolutionary trends.

This particular barge is a model for others being deployed around the world. Ocean Cleanup operates in 10 places, with 21 Interceptor systems – in countries including Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Guatemala, Jamaica and the Dominican Republic. It aims to clean up the 30 most-polluted cities by 2030.

...Ocean Cleanup's founder, the Dutch inventor and entrepreneur Boyan Slat, was originally inspired to use technology to battle the Giant Pacific Garbage Patch, and created the skimming technologies that can scoop a soupy crud of waste off the surface of water. But in researching solutions, the nonprofit pivoted to rivers - the arteries that carry rubbish into the world's oceans.

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