LOS ALAMITOS, Calif. – Epson, a global technology leader, today announced a partnership with The 5 Gyres Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering action against the global crisis of ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Grove Collaborative Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: GROV) (“Grove” or “the Company”), the world’s first plastic neutral retailer, a leading sustainable consumer products company, ...

Investigators Analyze Plastic Soup in World’s Five Oceanic Gyres HAMILTON, Bermuda, February 1, 2010 (ENS) – Marine scientists set sail from Bermuda on Thursday to document the extent of plastic ...

Scientists now estimate that around 8M tons of plastic waste pour into the ocean every year, forming swirling gyres of debris that behave like slow-motion tornadoes in water. These spirals of trash ...

March 2 (UPI) --What are the odds that a piece of plastic blown into the surf end up into one of Earth's open-ocean garbage patches? Scientists in Germany and the United States have developed a new ...

Anika Albrecht of Ocean Voyages Institute, on a 2020 expedition collecting plastic in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, where she served as Chief Mate. (Photo courtesy of Ocean Voyages Institute ...

The Dutch nonprofit group Ocean Cleanup hauled almost 64,000 pounds of plastic out of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch after two and a half months of testing the latest iteration of its collection ...

Plastic pollution has been a problem for some time, particularly in the ocean. An estimated 12 to 13 billion tons of plastic go into the ocean each year. The problem is, once plastic enters the ocean, ...

Somewhere between Hawaii and California, ocean currents have been quietly gathering decades of discarded plastic into a single sprawling zone of the North Pacific. It has no fixed shoreline and no ...

Humans unleash mountains of plastic into the sea each year, and that rate is only accelerating as plastic production grows around the world. The confounding bit is that scientists know little about ...

Coastal plants and animals have found a new way to survive in the open ocean -- by colonizing plastic pollution. A new commentary reports coastal species growing on trash hundreds of miles out to sea ...