What’s the best way to get plastic out of the ocean? Two nonprofits take different approaches to the problem of removing the 24 billion pounds of plastic that flow into the ocean each year—and face ...

Reducing marine debris by 50-90% and a globe circling, high-tech system of monitors are two essential aims among several championed today by nine distinguished international experts appointed to help ...

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A pollution expert on why any attempt to rid the ocean of plastic completely is doomed to fail—and what we actually need to be focusing on. Reading time 8 minutes Cleaning up plastic in the ocean ...

Environmentalists say that New Jersey’s beaches have come a long way since the troubled times of the late 1980s. An organization that helped to clean up the pollution at the Jersey Shore is restarting ...

Dutch inventor Boyan Slat has developed a system that uses ocean currents to collect plastic waste. Experts consider this ...

Ocean Cleanup is a non-profit started in 2013 by then 18-year-old Boyan Slat of the Netherlands. He proposed and developed a number of skimmer-type devices to retrieve plastic floating in the ocean ...