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Indonesia wastes upward of 10 billion plastic bags every year, making it the second highest polluter of plastic in the entire world. To address the growing plastic pollution problem, thousands of volunteers gathered around...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is growing at an alarming rate — and it's already three times the size of France. Fortunately, help is on the way: new images show that The Ocean Cleanup is building an innovative plastic-scooping...

The Ocean Cleanup Project seeks to dismantle the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, guided by an ambitious design concept and the development of new technology to tackle the pollution threat...

The Ocean Cleanup Project seeks to dismantle the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, guided by an ambitious design concept and the development of new technology to tackle the pollution threat...

Fast fashion is a dirty business, and the apparel industry is considered one of the world's most toxic, second only to the oil industry when it comes to pollution...

As if coral reefs didn't have enough to contend with, as bleaching ravages the vital ocean environments - a new study shows that billions of pieces of discarded plastic are spreading disease across the world's reefs...

How much plastic do rivers dump into the world's oceans? The Ocean Cleanup decided to find out. They conducted what they say is the "first-ever estimate of plastic emissions from rivers" and the results are shocking, as in,...

How much plastic do rivers dump into the world's oceans? The Ocean Cleanup decided to find out. They conducted what they say is the "first-ever estimate of plastic emissions from rivers" and the results are shocking, as in,...

Last fall The Ocean Cleanup found 1,000 large pieces of plastic in two hours in the Pacific Ocean during their first aerial reconnaissance mission. Today the Dutch foundation announced they've raised $21.7 million, and can...

Cleaning up our oceans just got one step closer to reality as The Ocean Cleanup just launched the first prototype of a device that will capture floating plastic pollution...

In the last 40 years or so there have been 13 major oil spills worldwide. Despite our dependence on oil, we have not yet come up with an effective way of cleaning up after our devastating messes. A physicist at Fermilab,...

In the last 40 years or so there have been 13 major oil spills worldwide. Despite our dependence on oil, we have not yet come up with an effective way of cleaning up after our devastating messes. A physicist at Fermilab,...

In the last 40 years or so there have been 13 major oil spills worldwide. Despite our dependence on oil, we have not yet come up with an effective way of cleaning up after our devastating messes. A physicist at Fermilab,...

The inaugural test of the Ocean Cleanup Array, a trash-collecting dam which allows the ocean’s currents to bring surrounding debris to one central point, will begin in the second quarter of 2016 in the North Sea, just a...

Plastic trash in the ocean is a huge problem - a ‘millions of tons’ type problem. New evidence suggests that in the San Francisco Bay area alone, there will soon be a lot more plastic floating in the water than previously...