The Ocean Cleanup is fighting against this accumulation. In 2024, the foundation removed 11.5 million kilos of garbage from ...

Plastic accumulating in our oceans and on our beaches has become a global crisis. Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up about 40 percent of the world's ocean ...

Such an amount of plastic, 21 million tons, would be enough to fully load almost 1,000 container ships. Findings are published in the journal Nature Communications There are 12-21 million tons of ...

is located in Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and California. It's estimated to contain more than 1.8 trillion pieces of floating plastic - the equivalent of 250 pieces of debris for every person on ...