As plastic waste continues to grow, so does the trash that's accumulating in the Pacific Ocean. Two huge floating islands of ...

The Ocean Cleanup is fighting against this accumulation. In 2024, the foundation removed 11.5 million kilos of garbage from ...

Midway Atoll, North Pacific Ocean (CNN) -- The distance from humanity yawns out in front of you when you stand on the pale sands of this tiny Pacific island ... tons of plastic trash leak into ...

Floating in the North Pacific ... of the earth’s ecosystem”.) The Trash Isles campaign was thought up by ad creatives Michael Hughes and Dalatando Almeida. Designer Mario Kerkstra created the identity ...

About 18 billion pounds of plastic waste flow from coastal ... has an area of just 32 square miles. The small island has a significant amount of trash floating in the waters and along the beaches.

Just after dawn in Kalyan, on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, trash pickers looking ... would have worn all that plastic into tiny bits. And those bits might still be floating around the world ...

The island churns out ... 20-meter-long trash trap s— at Kingston Pen, Barnes Gully, and Rae Town. By December 2024, they had snagged 250 tonnes of plastic, roughly 25 per cent of the harbour ...