A huge trash-collecting system designed to clean up plastic floating in the Pacific Ocean is finally picking up plastic, its inventor announced Wednesday.

A 2,000 foot-long floating pipe nicknamed Wilson is about to start its mission to collect all the plastic in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. CNN values your feedback 1.

A scientist put tracking devices on 25 bottles and put them in one of the world's most polluted river to learn more about how plastic trash moves around the planet. The answer: almost 2,000 miles.

Researchers estimated the total amount of floating plastic debris in open ocean at 7,000 to 35,000 tons. Andres Cozar of the University of Cadiz in Spain, an author of the study, ...

269,000 Tons of Plastic Floats in World's Oceans, Researchers Say There are shopping bags, bottles, action figures, pacifiers, tooth brushes, buckets, fishing gear and toilet seats, not to mention ...

A huge trash-collecting system designed to clean up plastic floating in the Pacific Ocean is finally picking up plastic, its inventor announced Wednesday.