The accumulated floating plastic known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is 620,000 square miles — nearly twice the size of Texas. One group is trying to clean up the more than 100,000 tons of ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now so packed with long-lasting plastic that dozens of coastal species are living, ...

A new system will be able to clear a football field every five seconds. Ocean cleanup crews have fished out the most trash ever taken from one of the largest garbage patches in the world. The Ocean ...

Did you know that most of the discarded garbage ends up in the oceans, forming garbage patches? Environmentalists from the ...

3:54 p.m. Sept. 7, 2024: A previous version of this article said that Ocean Cleanup vessels had removed more than a million tons of trash in three years. The amount was a million pounds. After three ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Floating in the middle of the ocean is a giant collection of trash and debris that's come to be known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The accumulation of plastics, cans and other ...

An environmental group has announced an ambitious plan to eliminate the Great Pacific Garbage Patch by 2034 — as long as it gets $7.5 billion in funding to do the job. The Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit ...

The world's oceans and waterways are littered with millions of tons of plastic pollution – but scientists in a study released Thursday say we should think twice before cleaning them up. In fact, the ...

Now the plan is to recycle that plastic into products you can buy to help fund the effort. The Ocean Cleanup project is now cleaning plastic out of rivers to stop it from getting to the ocean A lot of ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Floating in the middle of the ocean is a giant collection of trash and debris that's come to be known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The accumulation of plastics, cans and ...