That includes cleaning the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an infamous collection of trash between Hawaii and California that has spurred on the "Ocean Cleanup" project, which uses mechanical means ...

If implemented on a boat, Valenti believes it would be possible to convert 50 tons of trash per day into hydropower, essentially creating a “self-fueling ocean cleaning factory.” Right now ...

While many ocean-cleaning efforts have focused on trash that’s already made it to the high seas, river cleanups offer a way to intervene sooner. “Rivers are a major conduit of plastics to ...

In the vast, swirling expanse of the North Pacific Ocean lies a phenomenon as intriguing as it is troubling – the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP). This colossal debris vortex stretching from ...

Helga Huntley, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the College of Science & Mathematics at Rowan University, has co-authored a ...

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 ...

Or maybe the petroleum and plastic industries are too busy ridding the world of microplastics, forever chemicals and thwarting global warming to bother with their trash in the ocean, right?

Egger stresses that TOC wants to make sure its plastic-cleaning ... Garbage Patch again, testing the updated barrier in the hope that they can collect more plastic per trip. Ridding the open ocean ...

“I thought we were being ambitious with the harbor but now people are talking about cleaning up the ocean,” Kellett said. “But I think the most effective solution is to get the trash before ...

While trash still builds up inland and flows to the ocean following storms ... as well as and using street cleaners to fill in voids. Coastkeeper officials said the policy makes California ...

While trash still builds up inland and flows to the ocean following storms ... as well as and using street cleaners to fill in voids. Coastkeeper officials said the policy makes California ...