Standing on the island's remote shoreline brings ... 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 ...

In short, while the picture is authentic, it does not show the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch." Underwater photographer ...

The newest survey, which was conducted by The Ocean Cleanup ... the patch isn’t a garbage island, but rather a massive area of the Pacific that has an incredibly high plastic density.

On Hawaii’s Big Island, on a beach that seemingly should ... He’s far from an alarmist—but he’s also convinced that plastic trash in the ocean is far more than an aesthetic problem.

This vast ocean ... of tons of plastic. However, the disassembling of this garbage patch is complicated by its composition. Contrarily to some media portrayals, it's not an island but rather ...

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 ...

Researchers have developed a new method for spotting plastic rubbish on beaches and successfully field-tested it on a remote ...

The small island has a significant amount of trash floating in the waters ... device differs from the now-famous plastic-cleaning contraption made by The Ocean Cleanup. Founder Boyan Slat wants ...

The Trash Isles campaign was thought up by ad creatives Michael Hughes and Dalatando Almeida. Designer Mario Kerkstra created the identity for the island ... predict that by 2050, plastic will ...

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 ...