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 Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

The Ocean Cleanup (TOC) project has announced the timeline and cost it would take to get the Great Pacific Garbage Patch cleaned up once and for all, using existing technology – 10 years and 7.5 ...

The Ocean Cleanup says they could have the Great Pacific Garbage Patch almost entirely eradicated in as little as five years, for a cost of $4 billion. Watch this video to see how much plastic ...

Six years ago, two ships were sent out to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in an effort to develop technology to clean it up for good. On Friday, those same two ships returned to San Francisco Bay.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a stark reminder of humanity’s impact on the environment. While efforts to clean up the patch are underway, prevention is the key to stopping the growth of ...

Over the past three years, The Ocean Cleanup has removed more than one million pounds of trash from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, or 0.5% of the total accumulated trash.

After three years extracting plastic waste from the notorious Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an environmental nonprofit says it can finish the job within a decade, with a price tag of several ...

Well, actually, it's worse than bad—it's catastrophic! We are talking about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Presently, this 'patch' represents around 80,000 tons of debris.

It’s fairly substantial and right off our coast,” Spector said. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a collection of marine debris, much of it from plastic, in the North Pacific Ocean.

From its humble beginnings in the 1960s, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch has grown to become the world leader in garbage patches. To understand how it grew so big, let’s take a glimpse into the ...