A report assessing state policies on plastics comes just weeks before negotiators meet to attempt to finalize a global treaty ...

The organization’s "United States of Plastics" report uses a five-star scale to rate state-level efforts to combat plastic ...

Founded by then-18-year-old Boyan Slat in 2013, The Ocean Cleanup has been working on innovative ways to solve the problem of ocean plastic. Their goal is to clean up plastic from the ocean and ...

Ocean Cleanup now tackles those 1% of rivers to capture the plastic before it reaches oceans. “It’s not a replacement for the slow but important work that’s being done to fix a broken system ...

The Ocean Cleanup plastic cleaning system broke in ... The Ocean Cleanup is a passive system involving a 2,000-foot floating series of connected four-foot diameter pipes that make up ...

The plastic pollution crisis has become one of the most pressing environmental challenges of the modern age. With millions of tons of plastic waste entering the world’s oceans each year, the ...

Nanoplastics—particles smaller than a human hair—can pass through cell walls and enter the food web. New research suggest 27 million metric tons of nanoplastics are spread across just the top layer of ...

The Ocean Cleanup estimates that since its operation started, it has removed 0.5 per cent of the plastic from the North Pacific gyre, or just over 450 tonnes. In April, the organisation announced it ...

Scientists found invisible plastic pollution across the North Atlantic Ocean. These particles harm both wildlife and humans.

The Chief Development Officer of The Ocean Clean Up, Julian Searle, joins Lynn Schmidt to share the amazing work that The Ocean Clean Up is doing to rid the world's oceans and rivers of plastic ...