Many people may not realize, however, just how deep the mess goes (that’s a pun, get ready). According to a new study ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

according to Clean Ocean Action. Plastic shopping bags were just 0.4% of the beach sweep trash in 2024, down from 0.9% in ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

"There's more plastic in the ocean. There's more plastic ... beach sweep report also showed that foam cups and containers made up a larger portion of garbage on beaches in 2024 than in 2021.