Quick Key Facts Eight million tons of plastic reaches our oceans annually. The top plastic marine debris items are cigarette ...

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 ...

Scientists use satellite data to find ocean zones where trash naturally gathers for easier, faster, and cleaner clean-up.

One of these nonprofit organizations is The Ocean Cleanup, which has been developing technologies to stop the flow of plastic pollution into our oceans. Since 2013, the Netherlands-based team of ...

Plastic accumulating in our oceans and on our beaches has become a global crisis. Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up about 40 percent of the world's ocean ...

We’re talking about microplastics – those tiny fragments that are quietly infiltrating every corner of our oceans ... to an unexpected solution to clean up this pollution with the aid of ...

Tonnes of plastic waste are discarded into the oceans each year. What are we doing to help tackle the issue and how can we help? The good news is that the fight to clean up ocean pollution is ...

“I don’t think anyone trying to pull plastic out of the ocean is also trying to kill neuston,” Helm tells The Scientist. But she describes what she sees as a reticence by certain cleanup initiatives ...

A massive marine recovery effort reveals the deeper human and economic cost of plastic pollution and what might be possibl ...

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. Efforts to ...

which includes a sustainability program that funds ocean-bound plastic cleanup efforts from funds saved on packaging costs and supply chain efficiencies. With the partnership, Miami-based AE Global ...

Together, they offer an innovative sustainability program that funds ocean-bound plastic cleanup efforts from funds saved on packaging costs and supply chain efficiencies. “Our customers care ...