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

With the organization’s technology, an area of the ocean the size of a football field is being cleaned every five seconds.

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

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

Yet the coffee cup lids, water bottles and bags we ... Some 8 million tons of plastic trash leak into the ocean annually, and it's getting worse every year. Americans are said to use 2.5 million ...

Manufacturers design products such as plastic utensils and to-go cups to be used only once ... He started building and photographing sculptures of ocean trash to illustrate the problem of marine ...

The Ocean Cleanup started removing plastic from the ocean a decade ago. But most of that plastic comes from rivers, so it started building solar-powered river cleaners to catch garbage before it ...

With plastic recovery operations now underway in the world’s marine garbage patches, scientists must contend with ... but efforts such as The Ocean Cleanup contend with how to retrieve debris without ...

So much plastic is discarded around the world that 8.8 million tons end up in the ocean every year ... collecting in “garbage patches” (though concentrations are too low to resemble piles ...

The Great Pacific garbage patch ... pieces of plastic will become microplastics which are deadly to fish and other marine life. And it’s not just about protecting the ocean ecosystem, as many ...

There’s one major hurdle with any degradable plastic material of course: what if it comes into contact with the catalyst for its destruction before you want it to? A plastic cup is no good if ...