Mille Lacs is the 13th lake and the first in the Upper Midwest to be examined by Clean Up the Lake, a small organization that made a name for itself in 2022 by pulling 25,000 pounds of trash from ...

With over 40% of Michigan covered in water and with the Great Lakes holding 21% of the world’s fresh surface water, it’s ...

Similar to the Atlantic and Pacific garbage patches, much of the plastic pollution that Rios' team found in the Great Lakes area is impossible to seen by the naked eye because it is so small.

Boca Bash revelers caught dumping trash in the water. A YouTuber based in Florida's iconic Haulover Inlet, set between Bal Harbour and Sunny Isles in Miami-Dade County, posted this video during a ...

Since the water wheel began churning in May, it has removed 40 tons of trash from Baltimore's Inner Harbor. Clearwater Mills LLC hide caption ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Groups are addressing the litter problem during and after Something in the Water festival. Keep it Beachy Clean Virginia Beach hosted a clean-up with the city on Monday ...

But that estimate relied on trawling for trash with nets. On his current trip, Moore did a similar 4.5-mile (7.2 kilometer) trawl of the ocean, but also used drones to assess the extent of trash ...

Blocking the trash flush. The State Water Resources Control Board in 2015 said every city, county and water agency must have a system in place by December 2030 at the latest, to prevent all trash ...

Floating at the side of a river that winds through densely populated neighborhoods in Panama City, a 52-foot-long robotic “trash wheel” sucks up plastic from the water and pulls it up a ...

Since June of last year, the two traps in LaGrange have collected a record amount of more than 1,000 pounds of trash. “Today we’ve collected about 25 pounds of trash.

The trash trap is V-shaped, so the water naturally pushes trash toward the middle while the edges of the "V" touch the river banks, blocking any trash from moving past it.