And thus began the story of the great Pacific garbage patch, a swath of plastic debris, chemical sludge and other trash the size of Texas that is trapped in a vortex between ocean currents.

Move over Hawaii--there's a new vacation destination forming in the Pacific, and its name is Recycled Island. Constructed from the 97 million pounds of plastic floating in the Pacific Ocean ...

And thus began the story of the great Pacific garbage patch, a swath of plastic debris, chemical sludge and other trash the size of Texas that is trapped in a vortex between ocean currents. [See ...

A British architecture practice has revealed plans to build a luxury floating island resort made from recovered ocean plastic at a remote location in the Indian Ocean. Margot Krasojević, founder ...

A British architecture practice has revealed plans to build a luxury floating island resort made from recovered ocean plastic at a remote location in the Indian Ocean. Margot Krasojević, founder ...

This process will make the island grow bigger and create a floating landfill anchored to the ocean floor. In time, the design will allow silt and sand to be deposited on the plastic, creating an ...

The patch, which is floating between Hawaii and California, contains 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic weighing more than 80,000 metric tons. That’s equivalent to 250 pieces of debris for every ...

The Ocean Cleanup says it wants to protect animals at the ocean’s surface from plastic, but neuston is the ecosystem of the ocean’s surface. There is a reason turtles and sunfish eat floating ...

Land ho! Or is it? WHIM architecture has a new proposal that's anything but garbage: They want to create a habitable, floating island in the Pacific made from the mounds of plastic waste already ...