Since 2021, the nonprofit has recovered 200 tons of plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an area between California and Hawaii that is notorious for its floating waste, which is ...

Marine creatures that drift through the ocean are riding currents to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. A surprising number of delicate invertebrates, called neustons, are making it home, according ...

Cleaning up the Great Pacific garbage patch 01:38. The accumulated floating plastic known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is 620,000 square miles — nearly twice the size of Texas. One group ...

An undated handout photo made available by The Ocean Cleanup on March 23, 2018 shows plastic samples that were pulled out of the ocean at the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP), located between ...

We spoke with Slat, who gave us an update on the mission and an overview of how the System 03 picks up floating plastic debris in the Pacific Ocean. "Our cleanup system is comprised of two parts.