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 ...

LEWISBURG — 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 ...

As an innovative solution to the alarming issue of plastic pollution in our oceans, the ocean cleanup drone has the potential to transform the way we handle waste. This remarkable machine is capable ...

Ocean plastic pollution is one of the greatest environmental challenges facing our planet today. The vastness of the oceans, ...

The Ocean Cleanup is dedicated to removing plastic from the world's oceans. It's a formidable task: National Geographic estimates that 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic, the equivalent of 269,000 tons, ...

The Ocean Cleanup, the Netherlands-based effort to collect marine plastics from the Pacific Ocean's "garbage patch," makes a lot of news with the large amount of material it has managed to scoop up ...

In the next month or so, Kia will begin offering an accessory for its EV3 subcompact electric crossover that will be made of recycled plastic scooped out of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. That's the ...

Ocean Cleanup is a non-profit started in 2013 by then 18-year-old Boyan Slat of the Netherlands. He proposed and developed a number of skimmer-type devices to retrieve plastic floating in the ocean ...