This moniker is used to describe the vast stretch of ocean from the west coast of North America to Japan that is crammed with an estimated 1.8 trillion pieces of trash, most of which are plastic. “I ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Rebecca Helm despises the phrase “Great Pacific Garbage Patch.” This moniker is used ...

Now the plan is to recycle that plastic into products you can buy to help fund the effort. The Ocean Cleanup project is now cleaning plastic out of rivers to stop it from getting to the ocean A lot of ...

3:54 p.m. Sept. 7, 2024: A previous version of this article said that Ocean Cleanup vessels had removed more than a million tons of trash in three years. The amount was a million pounds. After three ...

Marine scientists are witnessing a technological revolution in ocean cleanup. Revolutionary systems are transforming how we tackle plastic pollution, from autonomous robots to artificial intelligence ...

The path to innovation is not always a smooth, straight line. In some cases, it's U-shaped. In September, a 2,000-foot-long floating barrier, shaped like a U, was dispatched to the Great Pacific ...

A floating device designed to catch plastic waste has been redeployed in a second attempt to clean up a huge island of trash swirling in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii. A ship towed ...

The California coast, considered by so many to be a treasure, is now struggling with the threat of pollution. In Los Angeles County, an innovative device is collecting trash to stop waste from ...

In a mission to clean up trash floating in the ocean, environmentalists pulled 40 tons of abandoned fishing nets this month from an area known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Mariners on a ...

Inventor Boyan Slat is on a mission to rid oceans of plastic. His team at The Ocean Cleanup designs and deploys systems that pull trash from the open ocean. Now, he’s stopping the pollution at its ...

What’s the best way to get plastic out of the ocean? Two nonprofits take different approaches to the problem of removing the 24 billion pounds of plastic that flow into the ocean each year—and face ...