With the mass amounts of plastic that get funneled into our oceans from land—between 5 and 13 million tonnes annually—ocean clean-up technologies fall short, and can never catch up.

About 9 million tons of plastic are dumped into the world’s oceans every year -- enough to fill a football stadium 23 miles high. But a project dubbed the Ocean Cleanup aims to eliminate it with ...

Cleaning up plastic in the ocean might seem indisputably like a good idea. After all, the oceans make up more than 70% of our planet, and we have basically trashed them.

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. CNN values your feedback 1.

Cleaning up the plastic in the ocean 26:53. Take a look around, odds are you're surrounded by plastic. It's in our kitchens and in our bedrooms, it keeps our food fresh and our medicine safe.

Cleaning up the plastic in the ocean 26:36. Editor's Note: Since 60 Minutes brought you our story on The Plastic Plague, highlighting the work of a young Dutchman named Boyan Slat and his ...

Clean-up devices that collect waste from the ocean surface won't solve the plastic pollution problem, according to a new study. Researchers compared estimates of current and future plastic waste ...

Each year, an estimated 8 million metric tons of plastic ends up in the ocean, according to the advocacy group Ocean Conservancy. Some calculations predict that there could be more plastic by ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a vast marine debris vortex, is being tackled by The Ocean Cleanup’s innovative technologies. Kurt “CyberGuy" Knutsson explains.

Efforts to clean plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and other parts of the world's oceans could use some help from tech and citizens. Managing Editor Alison DeNisco Rayome joined CNET in ...

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 w… ...

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