Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Rebecca Helm despises the phrase “Great Pacific Garbage Patch.” This moniker is used ...
One of the biggest issues facing our oceans is plastic waste. Damage to economies, industry, and the environment is estimated to cost the world $2.5 trillion annually. But there's hope on the horizon.
The Ocean Cleanup will make waves on Thursday as it deploys its first trash Interceptor Original in the United States in hopes of further shrinking the Great Pacific Garbage Patch by catching trash ...
A nonprofit group has removed over 17 million pounds of plastic trash from the Pacific Ocean — and they’re not done yet. The Ocean Cleanup is an organization that was founded in 2013 in the ...
ALAMEDA, Calif. (KGO) -- Call it the world's biggest garbage dump: the swirling mess of plastic debris in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Now, there's an effort afoot to make it vanish, launching ...
Inventor Boyan Slat is on a mission to rid oceans of plastic. His team at The Ocean Cleanup designs and deploys systems that pull trash from the open ocean. Now, he’s stopping the pollution at its ...
Discover the alarming global crisis of plastic pollution and how it affects our oceans and rivers. This video explores the ...
Interceptor 007 is a not-so-secret agent of trash collection at the mouth of a Los Angeles waterway. It’s one of several barges belonging to The Ocean Cleanup, a Dutch nonprofit founded by 29-year-old ...
As plastic pollution in the world's oceans reaches critical levels, recently published research reveals how artificial intelligence-driven algorithms can dramatically accelerate plastic waste removal, ...
What’s the best way to get plastic out of the ocean? Two nonprofits take different approaches to the problem of removing the 24 billion pounds of plastic that flow into the ocean each year—and face ...
A GLOBAL nonprofit organization is set to deploy plastic waste interceptors to capture ocean-bound plastic waste in Manila.