Japanese scientists unveil a material that dissolves in hours in contact with salt, leaving no trace behind.

UNESCO and Plastic Odyssey have announced a new strategic partnership to address the escalating crisis of plastic pollution ...

Mansoor Athman has built a floating home entirely from recycled plastic and now lives in the ocean to combat pollution in ...

Playa Bowls, the nation’s leading superfruit shop specializing in acai bowls, juices, smoothies, cold brew, and more, has announced a new partnership with 4ocean, officially joining the clean ocean ...

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The Ocean Cleanup is calling on sailors out in the Pacific, anywhere between California and Hawaii this summer, to take part in ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) An AI-driven routing algorithm for plastic-collecting ships increases ocean plastic removal efficiency by over 60% without raising costs. The model rapidly ...

“Ocean-bound” is another tricky term. It connotes that the object in question is headed for the high seas, but that may not resonate when that object is a plastic spork in a parking lot 15 miles from ...

The report claimed that by 2050 the oceans would contain 850 million tons of plastic versus 812 million tons of fish. However, while the numbers cited in the EMF report were likely used in good ...

We don’t want plastic in the ocean. Most plastic degrades slowly and we have all seen pictures and videos of marine life being harmed by plastic. While many environmental issues are controversia ...

especially our oceans. Did you know plastic detrimentally impacts about 700 marine species? By 2050, there could be more plastic, by weight, in the ocean than fish, according to some estimates.

Though ocean-borne plastic trash has a reputation as an indestructible, immortal environmental villain, scientists announced yesterday that some plastics actually decompose rapidly in the ocean.