where discarded plastic waste is transformed into durable and high-quality plastering trowels in a state-of-the-art factory. This video showcases the step-by-step journey of how scrap plastic ...

A huge trash-collecting system designed to clean up plastic floating in the Pacific Ocean is finally picking up plastic, its inventor announced Wednesday. The Netherlands-based nonprofit the Ocean ...

The accumulated floating plastic known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is 620,000 square miles — nearly twice the size of Texas. One group is trying to clean up the more than 100,000 tons of ...

His idea — for a giant floating system that would corral the plastic so it can be scooped out — is on the verge of reality. On Saturday, a vessel that usually tows oil rigs instead towed Slat ...

But the deep ocean is being invaded by tiny pieces of plastic — plastic that people thought was mostly floating at the surface, and in amounts they never imagined. Very few people have looked ...

The internet abounds with articles about massive “islands” of plastic floating around in the middle of the ocean. This narrative conjures up images of trash piles congregated in certain ...