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 ...

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.

Scientists map ocean currents to trap floating trash and plastic debris, improving cleanup efforts of the Great Pacific ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

With plastic recovery operations now underway in the world’s marine garbage patches, scientists must contend with how little was known about the organisms living at the surface. Amanda was an ...

There, it joins the massive conglomerates of plastic waste, forming one of the many infamous plastic islands that mar the ocean's natural beauty. This tale illuminates the interconnectedness of our ...

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

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 ...

You’ve probably heard terrible tales about giant sea turtles choking on plastic bags or seen horrifying images of birds entangled in discarded six-pack rings. You may have read about the Great Pacific ...