Man plans to swim the Pacific Ocean to raise awareness for plastic pollution
You've heard a lot about the ocean plastic crisis, and may even know a fair amount about the Great Pacific Garbage...
The Ocean Cleanup is about to send a giant plastic collector to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is growing at an alarming rate — and it's already three times the size of France....
7 biggest threats to the environment – why we still need Earth Day
This Sunday is Earth Day, and while it's a time to celebrate our planet, it's also a prime opportunity to take...
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is growing at an exponential rate
Scientists recently found that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch - now three times the size of France - is showing...
The Ocean Cleanup launches San Francisco base in Pacific trash-busting bid
The Ocean Cleanup Project seeks to dismantle the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, guided by an ambitious design concept...
A garbage patch bigger than Texas was just discovered in the Pacific Ocean
A few months ago, scientists found a new garbage patch in the Arctic ocean. And now, another pocket of plastics,...
We’ve made enough plastic trash to bury Manhattan under 2-miles of the stuff
Whether you get an iced latte to-go in the morning, your restaurant leftovers in a plastic takeaway container,...
Redesigned Ocean Cleanup arrays to start scooping up Pacific garbage patch within a year
The Ocean Cleanup just made a huge announcement from Werkspoorkathedraal, an exhibition in the Netherlands. CEO...
The Ocean Cleanup raises $21.7 million to begin ridding the Pacific Ocean of plastic
Last fall The Ocean Cleanup found 1,000 large pieces of plastic in two hours in the Pacific Ocean during their...
World’s first ocean trash recon mission is complete – and the results are way worse than we thought
The Ocean Cleanup just completed its first aerial reconnaissance scan of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch to assess...
Boyan Slat’s Ocean Cleanup takes to the air to count plastic trash in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IjaZ2g-21E The concept behind the Ocean Cleanup Array is so simple that many...
SPARK designs solar-powered beach huts made from discarded ocean trash
Inspired by the work of Parley for the Oceans, an organization of creatives that addresses major threats towards...
Ocean Cleanup Array to be tested in the North Sea next year
The inaugural test of the Ocean Cleanup Array is finally nigh. A trash-collecting dam that allows the ocean’s...
Boyan Slat’s Great Pacific Garbage Patch expedition shows the plastic problem is “even bigger than we thought”
Last month Boyan Slat's Ocean Cleanup project sent a fleet of scientists and volunteers to measure and map the...
World’s first Ocean Cleanup Array will start removing plastic from the seas in 2016
While still in his teens, Dutch inventor Boyan Slat conceived of an Ocean Cleanup Array that he believed could...
Devastating Plastic Paradise Documentary Shows How Our Trash Lands up in the Pacific Ocean (VIDEO)
http://vimeo.com/user2175840/httpwwwvimeocomplasticparadisemovie Thousands of miles away from civilization,...
Expedition Finds Permanent Plastic Islands Within the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Back in 1997 Capt. Charles Moore discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch during a sailboat race from Los Angeles...
VIDEO: How the Oceans Can Clean Themselves of 7.25 Million Tons of Plastic Pollution
[youtube =http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROW9F-c0kIQ&w=537&h-302] By now you've probably heard about the issue...
New Study Finds Human Refuse in the Deepest Parts of Europe’s Oceans
A new study headed by The National Oceanography Center reveals that the seafloor is awash with human rubbish. Bottles,...
Floating Seawer Skyscraper Rids the World’s Oceans of Plastic While Generating Clean Energy
Millions of tons of trash enter the ocean each year and cluster in particular areas of the world's oceans. One...
Treeson’s Brilliant Biodegradable Water Bottles are Recycled as Clean Energy
After Treeson water company founder Carlton Solle took a trip to Costa Rica with his family five...
Scientists Discover a Great Garbage Patch in Lake Erie
Photo via Shutterstock Researchers have confirmed reports of an alarming increase in plastic pollutants in the...
7th Continent: Floating Kinetic Islands Help Clean the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Due to our addiction to plastics, the human race has created the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a massive accumulation...
Even If We Stopped Polluting Today, Ocean Garbage Patches Would Linger For Hundreds Of Years
Ocean Plastic photo from Shutterstock The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a horrifying consequence of our never-ending...
Kim Preston Morphs Plastic Trash Into Living Sea Creatures
Human beings produce and toss so much plastic out into the ocean that we have created the Pacific Trash Vortex,...
Pacific Ocean Trash Cleans Up Nice As Method’s New Soap Bottle
For years environmentalists have wondered why someone doesn't do something about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch....
Studio Swine’s Sea Chair is Made From Recycled Plastic Ocean Waste
Our oceans are filled with plastic waste that will never fully decompose - the pieces just get smaller and smaller,...
Spherical Underwater ‘Fish Tower’ Skyscraper Recycles Debris from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch was the inspiration for the Plastic Fish Tower, an orb-like underwater...
Underwater Skyscrapers Recycle Waste From Great Pacific Garbage Patch
The underwater skyscraper was inspired by the Eiffel Tower and flipped upside down in the water. The lower portion...
The 5 Gyres Project Searches the Oceans for New Garbage Patches
You may be familiar with the dreaded Great Pacific Garbage Patch -- a massive soup of plastic debris, flotsam and...