In the case of the Hong Kong-based autonomous boat startup Clearbot, it was a trip to Bali, where its founders saw the extent of the plastic pollution crisis first hand. “We were on the beach ...

As a long-tail boat arrives at a fishing village on the southern Thai island of Koh Chang, residents gather to sell their ...

"When in the open ocean on the boat, if we noticed rubbish ... that died from entanglement in fishing rope." It's also widely reported that ingestion of plastics has lead to the deaths of many ...

Most of the large plastic waste there comes from discarded fishing gear. And boat owners admit it will take hundreds of years to overcome a few reckless decades of using the sea as a dump.