He started building and photographing sculptures of ocean trash to illustrate the problem of marine pollution. Eventually he began to gather the detritus to use as his art materials, cleaning a ...

Roughly eight million tons of plastic enters the ocean every year. That’s according to a 2015 report, which also identified where the bulk of this trash originates. At the top of the list ...

In 2024 The Ocean Cleanup reports that they've removed over 24 million pounds of trash from the world's oceans and waterways. Needless to say, that's a staggeringly impressive number. "This total ...

Two Australian surfers found an innovative way to clean up the ocean: ocean garbage cans. Aptly named Seabin, these garbage cans float around harbors and marinas vacuuming loose rubbish.

“Trash and debris flowing into the ocean is a threat to marine life and coral reefs,” said cleanup coordinator Tiara Stark on Sunday afternoon. “Small pieces of trash are more likely to be ...

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 ...

Marine debris is trash and other solid man-made material that has ended up in the ocean and that is washed up on beaches. Although some of it is waste from ships and seafaring activities ...