The Ocean Cleanup is fighting against this accumulation. 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 ...

Barry Rosenthal started collecting plastic garbage on a New York shoreline ... Now Rosenthal travels to speak about ocean pollution and what might help clean it up. The most meaningful advance ...

Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up ... Garbage Patch is a gyre of plastic debris in the north-central Pacific Ocean. It’s the largest accumulation of ...

Discover what causes huge quantities of garbage to end up on the most remote islands ... Current and the Kuroshio Current. (A map of the world’s ocean gyres is available at oceanmotion.org ...

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