One of these nonprofit organizations is The Ocean Cleanup, which has been developing technologies to stop the flow of plastic pollution into our oceans. Since 2013, the Netherlands-based team of ...

The Ocean Cleanup started removing plastic from the ocean a decade ago. But most of that plastic comes from rivers, so it started building solar-powered river cleaners to catch garbage before it ...

The Ocean Cleanup project was created by Boyan Slat at the age of 22. $30 Million has been raised to fund his idea. It's set to help clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch located between Hawaii ...

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The LA County Board of Supervisors also recently passed a motion seeking state and federal help to expand beach clean ups, prepare for storm runoff and test ocean water for potential toxins and ...

“I don’t think anyone trying to pull plastic out of the ocean is also trying to kill neuston,” Helm tells The Scientist. But she describes what she sees as a reticence by certain cleanup initiatives ...

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The Ocean Crusaders team is back in Bundaberg for a monthly clean of the Burnett River, with support from local volunteers.

Such programs are good, but as they are infrequent, they cannot keep pace with the rapid accumulation of waste. The Ocean Cleanup Web site says that about 80 percent of plastic marine waste ends up ...