Hourly Weather - Kleve, Germany

At a Glance Dutch inventor Boyan Slat created the device to sweep up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.The solar-powered barrier is moving too slowly to hang on to the plastic it does catch.A crew of engineers will make changes to make the barrier move faster. As a teenager, Boyan Slat had a . So he invented a solar-powered, 2,000-foot floating contraption to corral an island of trash swirling between California and Hawaii. On Monday, Slat said the device has not...