A garbage island made of 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic spread across nearly 618,000 square miles and weighing 100,000 tonnes ...

Climate change and mass pollution is the new pandemic threatening environmental sustainability. A plastic island twice the ...

There's a scene in the original Star Wars where Han Solo has just evaded Imperial troops and bounty hunters on Tatooine in the Millennium Falcon and sits back with a coy smile across his face.

The project seeks to replace plastic water bottles and get plastic trash out of the ocean. A local water company CEO wanted to hear what they had to say.

In the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, The Ocean Cleanup team executed 112 trash extractions and have found that cleaning up the oceanic blight will come at a price tag of about $7 billion -- less ...

Charles Moore, an ocean researcher credited with discovering the Pacific garbage patch in 1997, said the Atlantic undoubtedly has comparable amounts of plastic. The east coast of the United States ...

One of the most conspicuous examples of waste’s impact is the five ocean garbage patches — massive, floating islands of debris. In developed countries, municipal services remove trash from ...