Roughly eight million tons of plastic enters the ocean every year. That’s according to a 2015 report, which also identified where the bulk of this trash originates. At the top of the list ...

The Ocean Cleanup is fighting against this accumulation. In 2024, the foundation removed 11.5 million kilos of garbage from ...

Today, scientists know that the patch is the result of a combination of ocean currents that corral tons of manmade trash into a vortex of sorts. It covers and absolutely huge area, comparable to ...

As plastic waste continues to grow, so does the trash that's accumulating in the Pacific Ocean. Two huge floating islands of ...

All five of the Earth's major ocean gyres are inundated with plastic pollution. The largest one has been dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a gyre of plastic ...

Marine debris is trash and other solid man-made material that has ended up in the ocean and that is washed up on beaches. Although some of it is waste from ships and seafaring activities ...

Follow Tech Insider: On Facebook More from Science Trash from all over the world collects in the world’s oceans. Eventually, most of it ends up in one of five known major swirling patches of ...

Two Australian surfers found an innovative way to clean up the ocean: ocean garbage cans. Aptly named Seabin, these garbage cans float around harbors and marinas vacuuming loose rubbish.

Documenting the garbage along New Jersey beaches helps state lawmakers make policy decisions on plastic pollution, says this ...

All five of the Earth's major ocean gyres are inundated with plastic pollution. The largest one has been dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a gyre of plastic ...