The plastic pipe-and-skirt system placed in the Pacific Ocean to corral marine litter needs repair for "structural malfunctioning" about two-and-a-half months after being deployed to the garbage patch ...

Back in August, the Ocean Cleanup Project returned to the waters of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch with a redesigned trash-collecting system that was its largest yet. This upsized approach appears to ...

The wheels are now properly in motion for an ambitious plan to tackle the huge problem of plastic waste in the world's oceans, starting with the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The Ocean Cleanup ...

Organizers of The Ocean Cleanup have spent years trying to get a system up and running to collect floating plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the largest accumulation zone of plastic in the ...