Did you know that most of the discarded garbage ends up in the oceans, forming garbage patches? Environmentalists from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation British fund have even calculated that if garbage ...

Ten-year-old Anna Langdon heard about a problem and didn't wait for someone else to tell her how to help. The fourth grade student at Linntown Intermediate School in the Lewisburg Area School District ...

To find out how destructive negligence and indifference are, it is enough to move between Hawaii and California and see the Great Pacific Garbage Patch! From wreckages of containers to children's toys ...

Can the Go Jetters save the day? The Great Pacific Garbage Patch: Episode Image Episode 35The Great Pacific Garbage Patch The Go Jetters take on their biggest challenge yet - the Great Pacific Garbage ...

Slat’s first TEDx Talk went viral in 2012, as the founder and CEO of The Ocean Cleanup described his detailed plan for tackling the Great Pacific Garbage Patch — and ocean pollution in general. In his ...

Photo courtesy of BREEZE Many efforts to clean ocean trash have come to fruition in recent years — some so effective that they could clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch within the next five years ...

While larger pieces of plastic may end up in massive gyres such as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, things including stickers and bags are more likely to end up in landfills, where they degrade into ...