Without fanfare, The Ocean Cleanup recently completed its 100th trawl of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, removing almost one million pounds of plastic refuse from the area since launching its ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is an enormous ... debris that can be found in the ocean is already out there – at least half of that comes from fishing trawlers that move in and out of ...

BALI, Indonesia, March 21 (Reuters) - A small boat designed to collect ocean waste took to the water ... have in recent years been littered with trash during the peak of the monsoon season ...

This innovative U-shaped catchment system, towed by two fuel-powered ships, trawls the ocean surface, collecting debris in its path. Once Jenny is full, the garbage is transferred to a larger ...

Ocean surface currents have shaped the enormous garbage pile for decades ... Some of the crew’s trawls captured “a couple buckets worth” of wee floaters, “more than I’ve seen anywhere ...