More than 90 percent of the plastics in the GPGP are microplastics. Azure waves lapping against huge piles of built-up junk. Garbage mountains rising above the sea. A thick crust of filth coating the ...

You've probably seen the photos: a sea turtle trapped in fishing line, a plastic bottle wedged in coral, and shorelines littered with packaging. That's not some distant problem. The same waste tossed ...

BALTIMORE — Floating fences in India. Whimsical water- and solar-driven conveyor belts with googly eyes in Baltimore. Rechargeable aquatic drones and a bubble barrier in The Netherlands. These are ...

It floats, it drifts, it doesn’t break down. Plastic in the ocean is everywhere, but now it’s doing more than polluting. It’s becoming something else. In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, where no ...

A floating trash barrier installed by Kabadiwalla Connect in Chennai’s Buckingham Canal aims to stop plastic waste before it ...

SAN DIEGO (Border Report) — A trash boom measuring 450 feet in length has been installed on the Tijuana River channel just north of the border, a project that has been in the works for 20 years. Two ...

CAMBRIDGE, Md. - About 15 bags of trash were pulled from Cambridge Creek on Tuesday as the city installed a new piece of equipment aimed at keeping the waterway clean. Local leaders believe the device ...

HYDERABAD: The Musi Riverfront Development Corporation Limited is going to deploy Floating Trash Barriers (FTBs) at 10 designated locations along the river. The barriers are meant for collection, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A new multi-million dollar trash-collecting ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SAN DIEGO ...