The Ocean Cleanup aims to be a temporary effort, with the ambition to reduce floating ocean plastic pollution by 90% by 2040. We will cease to exist once our mission of clean oceans has been achieved.

The bold question-askers at What If explore what happens when humans dump 3.5 billion tons of trash into the deep ocean.

Volunteers collected hundreds of pounds of trash from Ocean View beaches during National Clean Beach Week following Fourth of ...

So Haram and her colleagues decided to sample some of the garbage out in the Pacific, with the help of a nonprofit called The Ocean Cleanup, which had gone out to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch ...

77 tons less trash made it into the ocean thanks to this experimental L.A. County device. The Ballona Creek Trash Interceptor on Friday, May 5, 2023, at the end of its first storm season.

While trash still builds up inland and flows to the ocean following storms, there has been progress, she said. “The first flush this year, it was nothing compared to that,” she said. “I hope ...

When a plastic bag is swept down a D.C. storm drain, its final destination could be the Atlantic Ocean. After flowing into a local waterway, such as Rock Creek or the Potomac, it can wash out to ...

Cyclists have been reaching out to us about encampments, trash, and debris along the Ocean Beach Bike Path. CBS 8 is Working For You to find out how the situation is being addressed. “It’s ...

On July 4, tens of thousands descend on the Long Beach Peninsula. The crowds and leftover garbage have spurred some peninsula ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a rotating region of trash floating and suspended in the water of the central North Pacific Ocean. It is about twice the size of Texas.

The Surfrider Foundation’s ‘Morning After Mess’ effort picks up a total of 2,617 pounds at nine locations countywide ...

Human waste, mostly plastic, was found in abundance at the deepest part of the Mediterranean called the Calypso Deep, 3.1 ...