Microplastics and nanoplastics are so small and lightweight they can be swept into the air, where they may be helping to heat ...

As plastic tumbles against itself, it fragments, and a new study shows those fragments don't stay in the water.

The Kwai, a 140-foot cargo ship, just made a 45-day round trip from Hawaii and back. It's load? About 96 tons of trash from a floating garbage patch the size of Texas. There is a lot of trash to clean ...

A huge, swirling pile of trash in the Pacific Ocean is growing faster than expected and is now three times the size of France. A huge, swirling pile of trash in the Pacific Ocean is growing faster ...

Studies have shown that the average person has around 6,000 thoughts per day, and that 95% of them are about themselves. Almost none of them are about garbage. OK, I made that last part up. But if you ...

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The device was developed by The Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit that aims to remove 90 percent of floating ocean plastic by 2040. The Ocean Cleanup The Pacific Ocean is home to a massive collection of ...

An enormous patch of plastic garbage floating far out in the vast blueness of the Pacific Ocean has become so big that it can now support permanent ecosystems of species that have traveled thousands ...

The real problem is that the plastic isn't just large pieces of debris like bottles and discarded fishing nets.

In October 2019, The Ocean Cleanup project made headlines around the world when its prototype vessel started collecting plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This launch followed a year of ...

A fridge, toilet seats, and more than 63,000 pounds of trash. That's what a cleanup team recovered in a monthslong effort to chip away at the so-called Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a massive ...