The newest survey, which was conducted by The Ocean Cleanup Foundation ... Contrary to what many believe, the patch isn’t a garbage island, but rather a massive area of the Pacific that has ...

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

Standing on the island's remote shoreline brings a ... Some 8 million tons of plastic trash leak into the ocean annually, and it's getting worse every year. Americans are said to use 2.5 million ...

Trash on the island of Thilafushi in the Maldives ... a result of unusually high ocean temperatures. The government has pledged to radically reduce its carbon emissions, but that won’t matter ...

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An application submitted to the UN on World Ocean’s Day asks for ‘The Trash Isles’ to be recognised as an official ... Designer Mario Kerkstra created the identity for the island, designing its flag ...

Roughly eight million tons of plastic enters the ocean every year. That’s according to a 2015 report, which also identified where the bulk of this trash originates. At the top of the list ...

He started building and photographing sculptures of ocean trash to illustrate the problem of marine pollution. Eventually he began to gather the detritus to use as his art materials, cleaning a ...