The Ocean Cleanup is fighting against this accumulation. In 2024, the foundation removed 11.5 million kilos of garbage from ...

Unfortunately, plastic is so durable that the EPA reports “every bit of plastic ever made still exists.” All five of the Earth's major ocean gyres are inundated with plastic pollution. The largest one ...

It’s important to note that we don’t necessarily need to overhaul every kitchen product. We asked seven different scientists ...

With the organization’s technology, an area of the ocean the size of a football field is being cleaned every five seconds.

The plastic garbage, on the other hand, had a relatively effortless journey to Henderson. The island sits near the center of the South Pacific Gyre, an ocean current that sweeps up debris carried ...

The plastic swirls in giant gyres in the open oceans, collecting in “garbage patches” (though concentrations are too low to resemble piles of trash). Most of the plastic is degraded into small ...

and other birds of the open ocean roost and forage on sargassum mats. Sargassum enmeshed in rope provides shade and shelter for triggerfish. Human-made debris, from shipping pallets to plastic ...

Research suggests that similar adaptations may be occurring in various bacterial communities worldwide, particularly in environments with high plastic pollution, such as ocean gyres and landfills.

As these currents swirl, they naturally pull trash toward the centers of the world’s five subtropical gyres – massive, slow-moving whirlpools in the ocean. Over time, these zones turn into plastic ...