The Ocean Cleanup is fighting against this accumulation. In 2024, the foundation removed 11.5 million kilos of garbage from ...

As plastic waste continues to grow, so does the trash that's accumulating in the Pacific Ocean. Two huge floating islands of ...

And the biggest of them all is called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. If you picked up each piece of plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch you'd carry away about 1.8 trillion individual pieces.

More than 90 percent of the plastics in the GPGP are microplastics. 31,560 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster than others?31,560 people played the daily Crossword ...

Where is the plastic going? While we now have a rough figure for the amount of plastic rubbish in the world’s oceans, we still know very little about where it all ends up (it isn’t all in the infamous ...

All five of the Earth's major ocean gyres are inundated with plastic pollution. The largest one has been dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a gyre of plastic ...

Far out at sea, plastic trash—much of it discarded fishing gear—gets caught up in currents and concentrated in oceanic gyres. The largest of these aggregations is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, ...

If plastic had been invented when the Pilgrims ... is charging ahead with his teenage vow to clean up the largest garbage patch in the North Pacific. His organization has raised more than $30 ...

Kia today announced that it has won 'Sustainability Disruptor of the Year' at the 2025 Newsweek Auto Disruptor Awards, in ...

Globally, only 14 per cent of the plastic we use is recycled – but some countries achieve higher rates and new technologies ...