The Ocean Cleanup started removing plastic from the ocean a decade ago. But most of that plastic comes from rivers, so it started building solar-powered river ... World Wide Waste A triangle ...

Gaia First is working to create a world-first cleanup vessel that converts ocean plastic to hydropower, fueling its own ...

AI-driven routing algorithms help ships collect 60% more ocean plastic without extra costs, making cleanup faster and more ...

How to actually address plastic ... river to learn more about how plastic trash moves around the planet. The answer: almost 2,000 miles. Of the nearly 32.5 million pieces of trash collected by ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. Researchers now estimate that roughly 11 million metric tons of plastic waste enters the world’s oceans each year, including everything from ...

This story is part of Planet or Plastic?—our multiyear effort to raise awareness about the global plastic waste ... ocean. After sheets of clear plastic trash have been washed in the Buriganga ...

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 ...

The payoff, McCauley said, would be a dramatic drop in the plastic waste that's harming ocean wildlife, threatening human ...