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

The Great Pacific garbage ... plastics, and other debris was found to be congregating in one particular area of the Pacific. Today, scientists know that the patch is the result of a combination of ...

Plastic pollution is a severe environmental issue, especially affecting our oceans. Each year, millions of tons of plastic ...

For years, Jack Auty studied how inflammation in the human body drives diseases, ranging from stroke to sepsis to Alzheimer’s ...

catches plastic from the North Pacific gyre, the trashiest of five swirling current systems that transport garbage around the ocean basins and concentrate it in great patches. At Kamilo Point the ...

That’s how we get enormous build-ups like the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a giant collection of plastic pollution in the ocean that is roughly twice the size of Texas. As the founder and CEO of The ...

One of these destinations is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an enormous stretch of floating plastic located between Hawaii and California. Larger than the state of Texas, it has become a symbol of ...

Clorox Australia Pty Ltd. is being ordered to pay a multimillion-dollar fine in Australia for making "false or misleading" claims regarding a line trash bags that claimed to include ocean plastics.