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.

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.

A study of plastic trash hauled out of the Pacific Ocean found that most of it had been colonized by coastal life that was thriving right next to species that normally live in the open sea.

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

Plastic ocean trash could last for centuries. Plastic items accounted for over 95% of all debris recorded on the Cocos Islands. The trash included an estimated 373,000 toothbrushes.

But that estimate relied on trawling for trash with nets. On his current trip, Moore did a similar 4.5-mile (7.2 kilometer) trawl of the ocean, but also used drones to assess the extent of trash ...

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

Ocean Trash: What You Need To Know. By Ken Christensen (KCTS9/EarthFix) Dec. 11, 2017 11:45 p.m. The story of a piece of litter doesn’t end at your curbside.

A combination science and art project, Gyre involved a journey to Alaska’s beaches to examine and collect washed-up garbage, and then making beautiful art out of it. Alaska possesses some of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...