While sand beaches comprise just over 30% of the world’s ice-free shorelines, the collective idea of the sand beach can sometimes cast a much bigger shadow.. That image can even have an ...

The innovative BeBot robot uses electric power to remove pollution from shorelines, covering 20-30 times more area than ...

Finding plastic in sand sack . That’s where the new plastic detection system comes in. The RMIT created a new “spectral index” that looks for patterns of reflected light emanating from plastics.

What was once a beautiful white sand beach is what Moore and others now call 'Plastic Beach'. And it is not only on the surface. "This plastic goes down a foot deep.

Eventually, new beaches formed, like Pohoiki, a black sand beach that stretches for 1,000 feet on Hawaii's Big Island. ... which is more dense than plastic but less dense than sand, ...

[Photo: 4ocean] A new robot called the BeBot is designed to help clean up smaller plastic waste, traveling back and forth on beach surfaces sifting through the sand’s top layer. “It’s ...

Embedded in the sand are millions of pieces of tiny plastic that even the most dedicated beach cleanup volunteers can't collect. This vacuum grabs them but leaves the sand in place.

Scientists explored one of the most isolated islands in the world - Henderson Island - and discovered more than four billion plastic particles in the top five centimetres of sand. In 2015, a team of ...

After about four hours, Ward and his 50 volunteers had removed about 80 pounds of plastic from a 100-by-18 meter section of beach (picture a one-third strip of the length of a football field).