A solar-powered boat designed to collect plastic and other floating waste is helping clean waterways before pollution reaches the open sea. Practical solutions like this show how innovation can support healthier oceans one collection at a time.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/12/solar-powered-rubbish-eating-boat-plastic-waste-sea

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

Guided by floating barriers, the Interceptor has already stopped more than 143,000lbs of rubbish from entering the Pacific from one LA river

The Guardian