The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the largest accumulation of plastic in the world, but one company says it can get rid of it almost entirely. The Ocean Cleanup, a Netherlands-based company, says ...

In the 2024 Surfrider Foundation report, the nonprofit reported that its volunteers had removed more than 162,902 pounds or ...

In 2024, the foundation removed 11.5 million kilos of garbage from the world’s oceans and rivers. They even put a price tag on cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

For this second installment of the Sea Camp series, we explore the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. It's the largest of five gigantic garbage patches in the sea. These patches hang out at the nexus of ...

Friday's announcement marked the group's first time and cost estimate of the massive cleanup project. Read more: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch counts 1.8 trillion pieces of trash, mostly plastic ...

The Ocean Cleanup (TOC) project has announced the timeline and cost it would take to get the Great Pacific Garbage Patch cleaned up once and for all, using existing technology – 10 years and 7.5 ...

An environmental group has announced an ambitious plan to eliminate the Great Pacific Garbage Patch by 2034 — as long as it gets $7.5 billion in funding to do the job. The Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a massive collection of marine debris, is now estimated to be twice the size of Texas!" Other iterations of the photo appeared in 2021 and throughout 2024.

Six years ago, two ships were sent out to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in an effort to develop technology to clean it up for good. On Friday, those same two ships returned to San Francisco Bay.

The Ocean Cleanup says they could have the Great Pacific Garbage Patch almost entirely eradicated in as little as five years, for a cost of $4 billion. Watch this video to see how much plastic ...