With the organization’s technology, an area of the ocean the size of a football field is being cleaned every five seconds.

AI can now detect pollution before it spreads, and might inform governments and NGOs like The Ocean Cleanup.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A floating device sent to corral a swirling island of trash between California and Hawaii has not swept up any plastic waste — but the young innovator behind the project said Monday ...

An old video of a floating system cleaning ocean plastic is trending again, sparking interest in the initiative’s latest progress.

Nokia has unveiled plans to deploy private wireless connectivity, network Edge equipment, and analytics for The Ocean Cleanup project. The vendor announced the plans last week as part of efforts to ...

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 ...

On Kayak Island, off the south-central coast of Alaska, a team of researchers, students and conservationists combs the shoreline. The team finds a message in a bottle—a rare discovery—but the bottle ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - An environmental campaign seeks to help keep our beach towns clean. The nonprofit organization, Plastic Ocean Project, launched its “Sustainable Summer” initiative in July.

Imagine trillions of pieces of plastic debris that, if strung together end to end, would line every inch of coastline in the world at least three times over. That’s how much garbage researchers found ...

KINSTON, N.C. (WNCT) — J&J Tattoo Company in Kinston partnered with Red Shark Digital for a shark week flash sale tattoo event today. They offered $75 flash tattoos, with all proceeds going toward the ...