The man who wants to stop trash from flowing into the ocean

Boyan Slat has a plan to rid the ocean of plastic pollution, this coming El Niño could be a monster and more big stories ...
AZoCleantech

The Largest Ocean Cleanup in History: How It Works and Why It Matters

The Ocean Cleanup employs advanced technologies to tackle plastic pollution, targeting the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and ...

Meet Boyan Slat: This 16-year-old built a 'trash-eating robot' to clean the world’s oceans

Dutch inventor Boyan Slat has developed a system that uses ocean currents to collect plastic waste. Experts consider this ...

L.A.'s ultra-urban rivers wash tons of trash out to sea. There's a plan to change that before the Olympics

Trash interceptors' will be installed in the L.A. and San Gabriel rivers to stop tons of plastic from reaching the ocean ...
Union-Bulletin

San Gabriel River, LA River will get trash interceptors to combat ocean and beach pollution

Anytime it rains, trash comes flushing through storm drains and gutters, into rivers and downstream straight into the ocean and onto beaches.
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Scientists make key discovery about cleanup of giant floating 'garbage patch' in ocean: 'More vulnerable'

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 ...
The Daily World on MSN

Ocean Shores to celebrate Jeep Go Topless Day and beach clean up

Hundreds of “Jeepers” will roll into Ocean Shores this weekend looking to pick up beach trash — and maybe have a little fun ...

THE OCEAN cleanup

This Ocean Cleanup System Aims To Collect 50 Tons Of Plastic. But Then What? Area Of Plastic In The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Is Three Times The Size Of France The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Is Eve ...
East Bay Times

Landfill that closed 47 years ago continues to leak trash into Pacific Ocean

For more than 20 years, Mussel Rock, a steep stretch of oceanfront land in northern San Mateo County with breathtaking views of the Pacific Ocean and the Farallon Islands, was a garbage dump. Two ...
PBS

Could this bacteria clean up our plastic trash?

Engineered bacteria from NC State breaks down ocean plastic. NC State scientists are studying a bacteria that breaks down PET, the plastic used in some water bottles and clothing. They've engineered ...