The Ocean Cleanup is fighting against this accumulation. In 2024, the foundation removed 11.5 million kilos of garbage from the world’s oceans and rivers. They even put a price tag on cleaning up the ...

The Great Pacific garbage patch is now bigger than it’s ever been ... The newest survey, which was conducted by The Ocean Cleanup Foundation, was authored by over a dozen international ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Between Hawaii and California, trash swirls in giant ocean currents, caught up in the infamous, Texas-sized Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This is just one of many found across the globe.

Like the 11 million metric tons of plastic that enter the ocean each year, neuston accumulate in the oceans’ “garbage patches.” “I don’t think anyone trying to pull plastic out of the ocean is also ...

The first three years of the program have been mostly focused on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a large collection of plastics in the Northern Pacific Ocean. The Ocean Cleanup seeks to clean the ...

Kia today announced that it has won 'Sustainability Disruptor of the Year' at the 2025 Newsweek Auto Disruptor Awards, in ...

With no investors, no credentials, and just $300 in savings, this teenager decided to clean the ocean... and somehow, it worked.