One of the biggest issues facing our oceans is plastic waste. Damage to economies, industry, and the environment is estimated to cost the world $2.5 trillion annually. But there's hope on the horizon.

As plastic pollution in the world's oceans reaches critical levels, recently published research reveals how artificial intelligence-driven algorithms can dramatically accelerate plastic waste removal, ...

ALAMEDA, Calif. (KGO) -- Call it the world's biggest garbage dump: the swirling mess of plastic debris in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Now, there's an effort afoot to make it vanish, launching ...

The Kozhikode based Universal Karmic Foundation, a public charitable organization working in the field of environmental ...

This eco-conscious, full-featured web browser automatically removes trash and plastic from the ocean and waterways with each ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists now estimate that around 8M tons of plastic waste pour into the ocean every year, forming swirling gyres of debris ...

Inventor Boyan Slat is on a mission to rid oceans of plastic. His team at The Ocean Cleanup designs and deploys systems that pull trash from the open ocean. Now, he’s stopping the pollution at its ...

And of the 10 highest ocean plastic polluters, six countries accounting for more than 50 per cent of global plastic waste are ...

BALTIMORE, MD, April 23, 2025 – As plastic pollution in the world’s oceans reaches critical levels, groundbreaking new research reveals how artificial intelligence-driven algorithms can dramatically ...