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

April 4, 2025 A pungent smell of rotting garbage fills the air. Bulging sacks of trash pile high, some spilling ... black plastic bags had piled up at the end of some streets, and people from ...

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

We have been inching toward the reality that Los Angeles could burn from the foothills to the ocean for a long time ... Then I walked up the driveway, stood in the scorched grass and stared at a ...

The North Pacific subtropical gyre is the most infamous of the bunch. That’s home to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the biggest and most studied plastic pile-up in the ocean. It’s drawn the ...

The first pile ... still ends up creating waste in other countries. “You should go and see the landfills in East Africa with Toronto Maple Leaf shirts. We’re exporting our garbage,” said ...

April 1996: A pair of severed legs are discovered on Fire Island On April 20, 1996, a pair of severed legs were discovered in a garbage bag ... plastic sheeting on a pile of scrap wood at the ...

According to the World Wildlife Fund, nearly three quarters of the volume of plastic that spills into the ocean from the ... the overwhelming amount of trash on the sidewalks makes the work nearly ...