Plastic is versatile and convenient to use, but it's not exactly eco-friendly. One look at the floating island of plastic in ...

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 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 ...

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 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 single-use plastic bag was among the 3,500 ... not what is floating above it, therefore demonstrating the deepest evidence of the ocean’s pollution problem. "As the deep sea is likely to ...

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 ...

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 ...

you might imagine ocean "garbage patches" swirling with tens of millions of plastic bottles and shopping bags. But unfolding alongside the "macroplastic" pollution crisis is another threat caused ...

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 ...

A new study has some good news, but there’s a problem: Ocean pollution appears to be growing fast. By Delger Erdenesanaa There’s less plastic pollution flowing into the ocean from land than ...