The North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, otherwise known as the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch," is considered the world's largest accumulation of ocean plastic. It's so massive, in fact, that ...

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 ...

Is it safe to reuse a plastic bag? The answer isn't as straightforward as you probably think, but don't fret. Research ...

Minimize your plastic use to help protect the ocean." "This makes me so sad," a commenter said. "We need to do better." "I literally thought it was a jellyfish for a second," another commenter ...

The innovative idea is a floating barrier that will gather the mass of plastic bits from bottles, bags, fishing nets and ... where The Ocean Cleanup foundation plans to perform a yearlong series ...

A 2,000 foot-long floating pipe nicknamed Wilson is about to start its mission to collect all the plastic in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Last month, the Ocean Cleanup foundation launched the ...

Plastic bags start out as fossil fuels and end up as deadly waste in landfills and the ocean. Birds often mistake shredded plastic ... it's nearly impossible to distinguish between jellyfish and ...

published a study that estimated similar amounts of plastic floating in the ocean. “Even with the lower estimates of the amount of plastics entering the ocean each year, we are still faced with ...

And the original idea was to have a very long floating barrier in the middle of the ocean attached to the ... of the highest per capita users of plastic bags. But in 2019 banned them.