The plastic boat will be used to educate children about the impact of plastic pollution A boat made from recycled plastic is running plastic fishing trips to clear polluted waterways of rubbish ...

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.

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 ...